Toards a Ne Paradigm in Monetary Economics [Paperback]

A pioneer treatment of monetary economics written by two of world's leading authorities.Argues for a theory of monetary economics which emphasises the importance of the demand and supply of loanable funds and the role of credit. Expanding upon the literature of new institutional economics, the first part of the book stresses the significance of imperfections in information, bankruptcy and banks. The second part examines the policy implications of the new paradigm and demonstrates its relevance to our understanding of two recent historical episodes--the East Asian financial crisis and the 1991 US recession and subsequent recovery and boom.Argues for a theory of monetary economics which emphasises the importance of the demand and supply of loanable funds and the role of credit. Expanding upon the literature of new institutional economics, the first part of the book stresses the significance of imperfections in information, bankruptcy and banks. The second part examines the policy implications of the new paradigm and demonstrates its relevance to our understanding of two recent historical episodes--the East Asian financial crisis and the 1991 US recession and subsequent recovery and boom.Expanding upon the literature of new institutional economics, the first part of this study stresses the significance of imperfections in information, bankruptcy and banks. The second part examines the policy implications of the new paradigm emphasizing loanable fund demand and supply, and demonstrates its relevance to our understanding of two recent historical episodes--the East Asian financial crisis and the 1991 U.S. recession and subsequent recovery and boom.Introduction; Part I. Theory: 1. Reflections on the current state of monetary economics; 2. How finance differs; 3. The ideal banking system; 4. Restricted banking; 5. Market equilibrium; 6. From the corn economy to the monetary economy; 7. Towards a general equilibrium theory of credit; Part II. Applications: 8. Monetary l“%