Neil Thompson is a highly respected writer, teacher and adviser, with over 36 years' experience in the people professions. He has held full or honorary professorships at four UK universities, and is now a sought-after trainer, consultant and conference speaker. He runs the Avenue Professional Development Programme, an online learning community for people professionals. His website and blog are at www.neilthompson.info. A free subscription to his humansolutions newsletter is available from: http://www.humansolutions.org.uk/bulletin.

• List of Figures - Preface - An Introduction to Portfolio Analysis - The Mean-Variance Approach - Transactions and Precautionary Demand Models - Mixed Models and the General Utility Approach - The Empirical Demand for Money Function - Stability and the Demand for Money Function - Disequilibrium Money and Buffer Stock Models - Bank Lending Equations - The Demand for Long-Term Government Securities - Multi-asset Portfolio Models - Summary and Conclusions - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index