Banking on the Future: The Fall and Rise of Central Banking
The crash of 2008 revealed that the world's central banks had failed to offset the financial imbalances that led to the crisis, and lacked the tools to respond effectively. What lessons should central banks learn from the experience, and how, in a global financial system, should cooperation between them be enhanced? Banking on the Future provides a fascinating insider's look into how central banks have evolved and why they are critical to the functioning of market economies.
Modern Banking "Modern Banking" is a sequel to the highly successful "Modern Banking in Theory and Practice," first published in 1996. Over the last decade many aspects of banking have changed considerably, though the key features that distinguish banks from other financial institutions remain. Some might question the need for a book on banking rather than one on financial institutions - while banks remain special and unique to the financial sector, books need to be devoted to them.
AMERICAN WRITERS, Supplement VThe present volume is mostly about contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. For example, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erica Jong, A. R. Gurney, Robert Stone, Tim O'Brien, Ann Beattie, and Russell Banks have been written about in the review pages of newspapers and magazines, but their work has yet to attract significant scholarship.
Matter is a novel from Iain Banks, under the name Iain M. Banks. A science fiction novel, it is the latest in his popular Culture series. It was published on 25 January 2008.
Matter was a finalist for the 2009 Prometheus Award.
