The European debt crisis has posed a challenge for many people to understand, both non-Europeans and Europeans alike. Even economists, finance specialists and market commentators are often uncertain of its causes or in the interpretation of events ongoing, or of past events that have taken place...

Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Money and Monetary Systems -- Chapter 2: Money and Income -- Chapter 3: Interest Rates and Financial Markets -- Chapter 4: Central Banks and the Money Supply -- Chapter 5: Monetary Policy -- Chapter 6: Critiques of Monetary Policy -- Notes -- References -- Index...

1. The European context for integration and accession -- 2. The role of the European Union in Eastern European economies -- 3. Eastern Europe regional bloc: CEE and CIS -- 4. The economic impact of integration -- 5. Challenges for entering Eastern European markets -- 6. Political risk in Eastern...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Economy's Vampire: Health Care -- Chapter 1: Health Care, Deficits, and the Economy -- Chapter 2: The Absent Free Market -- Chapter 3: The Economy's Vampire -- Part II: Three Generations of Reform Proposals -- Chapter 4: The New...

Cover -- A Primer on Nonparametric Analysis, Volume I -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SECTION I: One-Sample Tests -- CHAPTER 1: Goodness of Fit Tests -- CHAPTER 2: Randomness Tests -- CHAPTER 3: One-Sample Location Inference -- SECTION II: Two-Sample Location Tests -- CHAPTER...

Cover -- A Primer on Nonparametric Analysis, Volume II -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION I: K Related Samples -- CHAPTER 1: Three or More Related Populations: One-Way Analysis of Variance -- CHAPTER 2: K Unrelated Samples Tests -- SECTION II: Measures of Association -- CHAPTER 3:...

Cover -- The Modern Caribbean Economy, Volume II: Economic Development and Public Policy Challenges -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: Public Policy and Economic Growth: Some Insights into the Caribbean Experience: Ramesh Ramsaran -- CHAPTER 2: Towards an Alternative...

Cover -- The Modern Caribbean Economy, Volume I: Alternative Perspectives and Policy Implications -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: The Contribution of Canadian Economic Thought to Caribbean Political Economy: A Preliminary Investigation: Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi --...

1. The European context for integration and accession -- 2. The role of the European Union in Eastern European economies -- 3. Central and Eastern European economies -- 4. The economic impact of integration of CEE economies -- 5. Challenges for entering Eastern European markets -- 6. Political...