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.

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)

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)

Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) was the foremost British economist of his time. Among his areas of expertise was monetary analysis. Written in 1923, MONEY, CREDIT, AND COMMERCE devoted to this subject, is his last major work. Among the proposals made in this work for which Marshall is most remembered is the adoption of symmetallism, a plan for the combined use of gold and sil...(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”。

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)