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Exploring the function of money as a medium of exchange and a store of value, this major work provides a comprehensive introduction to the pure theory of money and monetary policy. Jurg Niehans considers his subject in both its microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects. The analysis thus extends from the individual demand for money to monetary ......
Energy needs...oil supplies...inflation rates...the demand for new homes...in concerns like these, forecasting plays a crucial role. Forecasts not only determine how billions of dollars will be spent but also commit national policies far into the future; yet, no one really knows how to judge the reliability of forecasts. In this innovative study, ......
John Hollander's 'Blue Wine and Other Poems,' his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, 'Spectral Emanations,' shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America moving into a new phase in his distinguished career.Poems on painting and sculpture, in which Hollander examines the static/dynamic interaction of ......
The fate of democratic governments throughout the world is a topic of growing concern. The crises of modern history, from the Machtegreifung by Hitler through the downfall of the Allende government in Chile, have caused many to suspect an inevitable downfall of democracies. In a systematic review of the political experiences of Latin American and ......
Crisis, Breakdown, and Reequilibration - 144 pp. Juan J. Linz 0-8018-2009-X $8.76 (reg. $10.95) pb Chile - 144 pp. Arturo Valenzuela 0-8018-2010-3 $8.76 (reg. $10.95) pb Southern Europe - 249 pp. edited by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan 0-8018-2022-7 $10.36 (reg. $12.95) pb Latin America - 232 pp. edited by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan ......
Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett (POD)
Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising from their own environment of social and historical norms and stimulates them to assess and criticize their surroundings. By analyzing major works of English fiction ranging from Bunyan, Fielding, Scott, and Thackeray to Joyce and Beckett, renowned critic Wolfgang ......
Leadership and Community Structure in Eighteenth-Century New England (POD)
Seeking to integrate recent literature on community life and on the political ethos in colonial New England, Edward M. Cook, Jr., examines elite recruitment and community structure in the four New England colonies between 1700 and 1785. In a massive sample of seventy widely dispersed towns, lists of towns, lists of town and provincial ......
