Economic, Social, and Environmental
This book offers an excellent overview of the complexities of designing effective pension systems.
This book provides a more popularized version of the Yale economist Shiller's earlier analyses of the U.S. housing market and his proposals for improvement, which involve not less but more financial innovation.
This interesting book explains in layman's terms why a global system is needed, why a global cap-and-trade system is unattainable, and why a partial system cannot accomplish the desired objective of limiting a rise in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases.
Tarullo provides a detailed account and evaluation of both the process of the Basel II talks and the final product, and it is sobering reading for anyone interested in the international coordination of financial regulations.
The outgrowth of a television series, this breezy, fun-to-read book takes its readers from the earliest beginnings of money in ancient Babylon through the recent subprime mortgage crisis (up to May 2008).
