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Born on the links : a concise history of golf
\"Born on the Links encompasses the entire 600-year history of golf, from the links in Scotland in the fifteenth century up to the present. It not only covers golfs origins and the development of the rules, equipment, and playing fields, but also features accounts of its greatest players and historic events.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Currency convertibility in Eastern Europe
The spread of currency convertibility is one of the most dramatic trends of the late twentieth century. It reflects the desire of policymakers to integrate their economies into the global trading system and to attract financial capital and direct investment from abroad.In this book a team of leading international economists and economic historians look at parallel situations in the history of the international monetary system, focusing in particular on the gold standard. The concluding chapter uses a case study of modern Portugal to draw out implications for modern international monetary relations in Europe and for the rest of the world.
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Delivering on debt relief : from IMF gold to a new aid architecture
This study brings readers up to date on the complicated and controversial subject of debt relief for the poorest countries of the world. What has actually been achieved? Has debt relief provided truly additional resources to fight poverty? How will the design and timing of the \"enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative\" affect the development prospects of the world's poorest countries and their people? The study then moves on to address several broader policy questions: Is debt relief a step toward more efficient and equitable government spending, building better institutions, and attracting productive private investment in the poorest countries? Who pays for debt relief? Is there a case for further relief? Most important, how can the case for debt relief be sustained in a broader effort to combat poverty in the poorest countries?.
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Global Economics in Extraordinary Times
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Ch 1. An Economist for All Seasons -- Contributions -- Philosophical Approach -- Overview -- References -- Ch 2. The Washington Consensus -- Washington Consensus I -- The Expanded \"Washington Consensus II\" -- Three Critiques -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Part I. MONEY -- Ch 3. The International Monetary System or \"Nonsystem\"? -- John Williamson and the International Monetary System -- The Adjustment Process -- International Liquidity, Seigniorage, and the Stability of the Multicurrency System -- Conclusion -- References -- Ch 4. Economic and Monetary Union in Europe -- The Fragility of the Euro Area -- A Simple Model of Good and Bad Equilibria -- Testing the Theory -- Policy Implications -- References -- Ch 5. Target Zones and Monitoring Bands -- Paul Krugman's Target Zone Model: Turning Friedman on His Head -- Why Have a Target Zone? Four Parables -- A Contemporary Assessment of Floating Rates, and Issues of Implementation -- A Glimpse of the Future? China and the International Monetary System -- Conclusion -- References -- PART II. FINANCE -- Ch 6. International Finance -- The Difficulty of Reaching Meaningful Agreements on International Economic Rules -- Creating Safe Harbors in Troubled Seas -- Why Financial Regulation Needed Reform -- Introducing Micro- and Macroprudential Regulation -- Countercyclical Charges and Liquidity Buffers: Some Practical Suggestions -- Role of Value Accounting in the Promulgation of Crises -- To Each According to Their Risk Capacity -- How Can You Tame Boom-Bust if You Don't Know Whether You Are in a Boom? -- Systemically Important Institutions, Behavior, and Instruments -- International Policy Coordination -- Conclusion -- References -- Ch 7. Growth-Linked Securities -- Overview of Growth-Linked Securities.
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Psychological Research
Starting a research project, however large or small can be a daunting prospect. New researchers can be confronted with a huge number of options not only of topic, but of conceptual underpinning. It is quite possible to conduct research into say, memory, from a number of research traditions. Psychology also has links with several other disciplines and it is possible to utilise their techniques; the difficulty is quite simply the wide variety of methodological approaches that psychological research embraces. In this collection, authors have been recruited to explain a wide range of different research strategies and theories with examples from their own work. Their successes as well as the problems they encountered are explained to provide a comprehensive and practical guide for all new researchers. The collection will be a great help to undergraduates about to start final year projects and should be required reading for all those thinking of graduate level research.
John Haworth is a Lecturer in Psychology at Manchester University with research interests in mental health, work and leisure.
List of Illustrations. List of Contributors. Foreword. Part I: Survey Research. Part II: Qualitative research. Part III: Controlled Investigations
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