Modeling Monetary Economies
Author: Bruce Champ
The approach of this text for upper-level undergraduates is to teach monetary economics using the classical paradigm of rational agents in a market setting. By teaching from first principles, the authors aim to instruct students not only in the monetary policies and institutions that exist today in the United States but also in what policies and institutions may or should exist tomorrow and elsewhere. The text builds on a simple, clear monetary model and applies this framework consistently to a wide variety of monetary questions. The authors have added in this second edition new material on speculative attacks on currencies, social security, currency boards, central banking alternatives, the payments system, and the Lucas model of price surprises. Discussions of many topics have been extended, presentations of data greatly expanded, and new exercises added.
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An exposition of monetary economics for intermediate and advanced undergraduate students with an understanding of basic graphs and algebra, but not necessarily of calculus. Draws on the overlapping models of money from the past few generations to investigate such questions as how money promotes exchange, what should serve as money, and what causes inflation and how much it costs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism: The Czech Republic after Communism
Author: Jacqui Tru
How are changing gender relations shaping and being shaped by post-socialist marketization and liberalization? Do new forms of economic and cultural globalization open spaces for women's empowerment and feminist politics? The rapid social transformations experienced by the people of the Czech Republic in the wake of the collapse of communism in 1989 afford political scientist Jacqui True with an opportunity to answer these questions by examining political and gendered identities in flux. She argues that the privatization of a formerly state economy and the adoption of consumer-oriented market practices were shaped by ideas and attitudes about gender roles.
Though finely tuned to the particular, local traditions that have defined the boundaries of globalization for Czech men and women, Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism also offers a provocative general thesis about the inextricable linkages between political and economic changes and gender identities.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism | 1 |
| 2 | Gendering State Socialism | 28 |
| 3 | Refashioning the Family | 55 |
| 4 | Establishing Labor Markets | 74 |
| 5 | Expanding Consumer Markets | 103 |
| 6 | Importing Civil Society | 131 |
| 7 | Engendering Global Political Economy | 163 |
| Notes | 177 | |
| References | 201 | |
| Index | 235 |
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