In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. In other parts of the world, however, the establishment of a "credit-card economy" has not been easy. In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card? How do markets convince people to use cards, make their transactions visible to authoriti...(展开全部)

Akos Rona-Tas is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego and Research Associate at Met@risk, INRA in Paris. He is the author of The Great Surprise of the Small Transformation. Alya Guseva is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She is the author of Into the Red.

This long-awaited book, coauthored by Nobel laureate and Yale University emeritus professor Tobin, is the essential guide to monetary theory for those who need the best available, most authoritative economic explanations. This fundamental introduction includes authoritative coverage of the mechanisms of the Federal Reserve and how its policies affect investment activity via int...(展开全部)

Can the market fully manage the money and banking sector? Jesús Huerta de Soto, professor of economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, has made history with this mammoth and exciting treatise that it has and can again, without inflation, without business cycles, and without the economic instability that has characterized the age of government control. Such a book...(展开全部)

In 1912, when Mises, at age thirty-one, wrote this landmark book, no monetary theory could be described as both securely founded on economic reality and properly incorporated into an analysis of the entire economic system. "The Theory of Money and Credit" opened new vistas. It integrated monetary theory into the main body of economic analysis for the first time, providing fresh...(展开全部)

路德维希·冯·米塞斯（1881-1973），20世纪著名的经济学大师，卓越的自由主义思想家。奥地利学派第三代掌门人，朝圣山学社成员。自由意志主义运动的主要代表人物，也是促成古典自由主义复苏的学者。被誉为是“奥地利学派的院长”。2000年被美国《自由》杂志评为“自由至上主义的世纪人物”。

作者：約翰‧普倫德（John Plender） 英國《金融時報》資深社論與專欄作家，主持BBC和第四頻道的時事評論節目。 也擔任研究與顧問團體「官方貨幣與金融機構論壇」主席、波爾森集團退休基金受託人。曾任昆坦公共有限公司（Quintain PLC）董事長。 著作有：《倫敦金融城》（The Square Mile）、 《金錢就是這麼一回事》（That's the Way the Money Goes）、 《未來的賭注與脫軌：全球資本與正當性的危機》、 （A Stake in the Future and Going off the Rails：Global Capital and theCrisis of Legitimacy）。 譯者：陳儀 目前為一家投資公司投資部主管，投入金融投資領域二十年以上。 曾任投信基金經理人及專業投顧研究主管，實務經驗豐富...(展开全部)

Sarah L. Quinn is associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington.

Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, but issues of government credit have been part of American life since the nation’s founding. From the 1780s, when a watershed national land credit policy was established, to the postwar foundations of our current housing finance sy...(展开全部)