The Money Trap: Escaping the Grip of Global Finance

by Robert Pringle

Book Overview

Why have the efforts of governments and central banks to revive economic growth and solve the problems left by the global financial crisis met with such limited success? Why have markets been periodically paralysed by fear and uncertainty?

This book argues that governments have been using the wrong policy weapons. They have relied on the traditional tools of low interest rates and monetary ease, plus tighter bank regulation and new macro-prudential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137366907
• ISBN13: 9781137366900
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"