Money and the market : essays on free banking

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Money and the market : essays on free banking

Kevin Dowd

(Foundations of the market economy series / edited by Mario J. Rizzo and Lawrence H. White)

Routledge, c2001

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Note

A collection of 16 essays written between 1986 and 2000, with 14 previously published, they are a sequel to his Laissez-faire banking (1963)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Kevin Dowd asserts that state intervention into financial and monetary systems has failed, and that we would be better off if financial markets were left to regulate themselves. This collection will appeal to students, researchers and policy makers in the monetary and financial area.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Part 1 The theory of financial laissez-faire
  • Chapter 2 The case for financial laissez-faire
  • Chapter 3 Bank capital adequacy versus deposit insurance
  • Chapter 4 Does asymmetric information justify bank capital adequacy regulation?
  • Chapter 5 Competitive banking, bankers' clubs, and bank regulation
  • Chapter 6 The invisible hand and the evolution of the monetary system
  • Chapter 7 Are free markets the cause of financial instability?
  • Part 2 The monetary regime
  • Chapter 8 A proposal to end inflation
  • Chapter 9 Reply to Hillier
  • Chapter 10 Using futures prices to control inflation
  • Chapter 11 The 'compensated dollar' revisited
  • Chapter 12 Money and the market
  • Part 3 Policy issues
  • Chapter 13 Two arguments for the restriction of international capital flows, K. Alec Chrystal
  • Chapter 14 Monetary policy in the twenty-first century
  • Chapter 15 Reflections on the future of gold
  • Chapter 16 Too big to fail? Long-Term Capital Management and the Federal Reserve
  • Chapter 17 Paternalism fails again, Jimmy M. Hinchliffe

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  • NCID
    BA49754531
  • ISBN
    • 0415242126
  • LCCN
    00032180
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 226 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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