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Monetary Economics
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, Paul D. Mizen
Häftad, 2000
1282 kr
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In this textbook Mervyn Lewis and Paul Mizen cover all the material required for a complete course on monetary economics. Their book integrates all the immense changes of recent years. Taking the UK as their starting point, the authors have written a clear and interesting account of both …
Religion and Finance
Comparing the Approaches of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, Ahmad Kaleem
Inbunden, 2019
1836 kr
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Judaism, Christianity and Islam all impose obligations and constraints upon the rightful use of wealth and earthly resources. All three of these religions have well-researched views on the acceptability of practices such as usury but the principles and practices of other, non-interest, financial …
Global Finance After the Crisis
The United States, China and the New World Order
Av Richard A. Iley, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2013
2175 kr
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This thought-provoking book addresses challenging questions raised in light of the aftermath of the global financial crisis that saw an accelerated rise in the economic growth of China and other emerging market economies, while the US, Japan and Europe have labored under the great recession.The …
Global Finance After the Crisis
The United States, China and the New World Order
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, Richard A. Iley
E-bok, 2013
462 kr
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This thought-provoking book addresses challenging questions raised in light of the aftermath of the global financial crisis that saw an accelerated rise in the economic growth of China and other emerging market economies, while the US, Japan and Europe have labored under the great recession. The …
Understanding Ponzi Schemes
Can Better Financial Regulation Prevent Investors from Being Defrauded?
Inbunden, 2015
1609 kr
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A Ponzi scheme is one of the simplest, albeit effective, financial frauds to engineer, and new schemes keep coming forward. Despite this, however, people continue to invest in them. How are we to account for the seemingly never-ending lure of such schemes? In providing answers to this central …
Risk and Regulation of Islamic Banking
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, Mohamed Ariff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2070 kr
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From a single product offering in 1963, the Islamic financial services industry has grown to an estimated $1.6 trillion in assets. Products must comply with profit and risk-sharing criteria and regulations preventing banks from venturing into activities with high risk and excessive uncertainty. …
Risk and Regulation of Islamic Banking
Av Shamsher Mohamad, Mohamed Ariff m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
422 kr
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From a single product offering in 1963, the Islamic financial services industry has grown to an estimated $1.6 trillion in assets. Products must comply with profit and risk-sharing criteria and regulations preventing banks from venturing into activities with high risk and excessive uncertainty. …
Handbook on Islam and Economic Life
Av M. Kabir Hassan, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2014
4234 kr
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According to the most recent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, nearly one in four people in the world are Muslim. In light of these numbers, Handbook on Islam and Economic Life is one of the first books to consider Islam within a broader economic sphere by focusing on the ways in which Islam …
Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement
Evaluating Public-Private Partnerships and Other Procurement Options
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, Darrin Grimsey
E-bok, 2017
462 kr
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This book provides an up-to-date study of public infrastructure in terms of the selection, procurement and delivery of projects. There is widespread acceptance that infrastructure is vital and needs increasing, yet less agreement about how it should be funded and procured. This book assesses in …
Understanding Ponzi Schemes
Can Better Financial Regulation Prevent Investors from Being Defrauded?
Häftad, 2016
422 kr
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A Ponzi scheme is one of the simplest, albeit effective, financial frauds to engineer, and new schemes keep coming forward. Despite this, however, people continue to invest in them. How are we to account for the seemingly never-ending lure of such schemes? In providing answers to this central …
Rethinking Public Private Partnerships
Inbunden, 2021
1439 kr
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Public private partnerships (PPPs) have been a controversial approach to procuring public infrastructure services. Against a background of recent trenchant criticism of PPPs, Mervyn K. Lewis, a leading scholar in the area, re-examines their utility. He questions what PPPs can and cannot do, why …
Rethinking Public Private Partnerships
E-bok, 2021
459 kr
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Public private partnerships (PPPs) have been a controversial approach to procuring public infrastructure services. Against a background of recent trenchant criticism of PPPs, Mervyn K. Lewis, a leading scholar in the area, re-examines their utility. He questions what PPPs can and cannot do, why …
Public Private Partnerships
The Worldwide Revolution in Infrastructure Provision and Project Finance
Av Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2004
2007 kr
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This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings …
Economics of Public Private Partnerships
Av Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2005
5248 kr
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This important collection presents an authoritative selection of papers on public private partnerships. The literature is relatively new, and draws on the disciplines of both economics and engineering. As well as examining the recent experience of these schemes - whose evolution has accelerated in …
Islamic Banking
Av Latifa M. Algaoud, Mervyn K. Lewis
E-bok, 2001
444 kr
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The prohibition of interest is the feature of Islamic banking which most distinctly sets it apart from conventional banking. To Western eyes, this seems a strange restriction, but Christian countries themselves maintained such a ban for 1,400 years. Islamic Banking asks why Islam has been able to …
Islamic Finance
Av M. K. Hassan, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2007
5936 kr
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Islamic finance refers to methods of undertaking banking and financial transactions that are in conformity with the precepts of Islam. As such, the system offers a challenge to conventional Western ways of thinking about financing. This indispensable set of papers brings together the most important …
Reforming China’s State-owned Enterprises and Banks
Av Becky Chiu, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2006
2697 kr
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This book's starting point is that after two decades of experiments, during which other transition economies have effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The …
Handbook of Islamic Banking
Av M. Kabir Hassan, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2007
3509 kr
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The Handbook of Islamic Banking comprises 25 studies by leading international experts on Islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field.From its origins thirty years ago, Islamic banking has expanded rapidly to become a …
Public Private Partnerships
The Worldwide Revolution in Infrastructure Provision and Project Finance
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, Darrin Grimsey
E-bok, 2004
623 kr
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This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings …
Public Private Partnerships
The Worldwide Revolution in Infrastructure Provision and Project Finance
Av Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewis
Häftad, 2007
690 kr
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This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings …
Handbook of Islamic Banking
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, M. Kabir Hassan
E-bok, 2007
917 kr
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The Handbook of Islamic Banking comprises 25 studies by leading international experts on Islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field. From its origins thirty years ago, Islamic banking has expanded rapidly to become a …
Untangling the US Deficit
Evaluating Causes, Cures and Global Imbalances
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, Richard A. IIey
E-bok, 2007
472 kr
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As the US current account deficit has expanded to a record level of $811 billion in 2006, debate about the deficit''s causes and consequences has also grown. Is the deficit a product of American profligacy or a ''glut of savings'' in the rest of the world? Is it a serious problem or essentially …
Handbook of Islamic Banking
Av M. Kabir Hassan, Mervyn K. Lewis
Häftad, 2009
1018 kr
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The Handbook of Islamic Banking comprises 25 studies by leading international experts on Islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field.From its origins thirty years ago, Islamic banking has expanded rapidly to become a …
Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement
Evaluating Public–Private Partnerships and Other Procurement Options
Av Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2017
2317 kr
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This book provides an up-to-date study of public infrastructure in terms of the selection, procurement and delivery of projects. There is widespread acceptance that infrastructure is vital and needs increasing, yet less agreement about how it should be funded and procured. This book assesses in …
Islamic Perspective on Governance
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, Zafar Iqbal
E-bok, 2009
472 kr
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Zafar Iqbal and Mervyn K. Lewis examine, from an Islamic perspective, some central issues in public, economic and corporate governance. Amongst topics analysed are theories of justice, taxation, budget deficits, Islamic financing modes, public and private accountability, and corruption. The …
FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
Inbunden, 1995
5745 kr
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This volume brings together some of the most important articles on the topic of financial intermediaries. Financial Intermediaries puts recent developments into an appropriate historical setting, with seminal works by Edgeworth, Arrow, Gurley, Shaw, Baumol, Tobin and Stigler combined with more …
Islamic Banking
Av Mervyn K. Lewis, Latifa M. Algaoud
Inbunden, 2001
1956 kr
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The prohibition of interest is the feature of Islamic banking which most distinctly sets it apart from conventional banking. To Western eyes, this seems a strange restriction, but Christian countries themselves maintained such a ban for 1,400 years. Islamic Banking asks why Islam has been able to …
Globalization of Financial Services
Inbunden, 1999
5639 kr
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Banking, foreign exchange, bonds, equities and insurance services are now provided through an increasingly global marketplace. In financial services, as in other activities, globalization can be seen as a process opening up national economies and markets, widening the extent and form of …
Untangling the US Deficit
Evaluating Causes, Cures and Global Imbalances
Av Richard A. IIey, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2007
2015 kr
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As the US current account deficit has expanded to a record level of $811 billion in 2006, debate about the deficit's causes and consequences has also grown. Is the deficit a product of American profligacy or a 'glut of savings' in the rest of the world? Is it a serious problem or essentially …
Islamic Perspective on Governance
Av Zafar Iqbal, Mervyn K. Lewis
Inbunden, 2009
2494 kr
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Zafar Iqbal and Mervyn K. Lewis examine, from an Islamic perspective, some central issues in public, economic and corporate governance. Amongst topics analysed are theories of justice, taxation, budget deficits, Islamic financing modes, public and private accountability, and corruption.The authors' …
