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Monetary Policy Normalization One Hundred Years After Keynes’ Tract on Monetary Reform (Contributions to Economics)


Free Download Monetary Policy Normalization: One Hundred Years After Keynes’ Tract on Monetary Reform (Contributions to Economics) by Paolo Savona, Rainer Stefano Masera
English | August 19, 2023 | ISBN: 3031387074 | 216 pages | MOBI | 2.67 Mb
In light of the pickup of inflation at the end of 2021 and monetary policy shifts by the world’s major central banks, this book examines interrelated issues in the normalization of monetary policy. It covers topics including the role of technological innovations such as derivatives and cryptocurrencies in monetary and financial management, the role of monetary policy in financial crises (especially public debt), and the major repricing needed for central banks and the global economy. In addition, the book discusses the problem of how flexible money should be and the importance of predictive tools for these decisions, with attention to the advances of languages for scientific research, including those on the workings of the economy. The work addresses the geopolitical and social challenges that have arisen as a result of the invasiveness of monetary policy in its various manifestations in the context of major leading currencies. It is aimed at scholars and students of monetary and financial economics.

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On the Normalization of Organized Brutalities An Organizational Sociological Analysis of the Euthanasia Institution Had


Free Download Dennis Firkus, "On the Normalization of Organized Brutalities: An Organizational Sociological Analysis of the Euthanasia Institution Had"
English | ISBN: 3658415142 | 2023 | 142 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book takes an organizational sociological perspective on the systematically carried out mass murders in the context of Nazi euthanasia in Hadamar. On the basis of numerous theoretically elaborated as well as empirically proven organizational mechanisms, it is shown how these illegal practices were "normalized" in an extraordinary way by and for the personnel, who were not trained or otherwise predisposed to murder. The acts thus became a legitimate expectation of action, while at the same time the organizational integration had a desolidarizing, demoralizing, and responsibility-relieving effect.

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