Dino Falaschetti, former Thomas F. Gleed Endowed Chair and Visiting Professor of Finance and Business Law, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University, Associate Professor of Law and Economics, College of Law, Florida State University and Special Consultant, Economists Incorporated, Washington, DC and SF Bay Area, US and Michael J. Orlando, Principal Consultant of Economic Advisors, Inc., Denver, US. He served as a research economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and then as Vice President and Branch Executive of the Bank’s Denver Branch, US

• Contents: Foreword by Antoine Martin Introduction Part I: The Economic Method of Inquiry 1. Modeling 2. Foundation 3. A Model Economy Part II: Money in a Static Economy 4. What is Money? 5. Money and the Level of Economic Well-being Part III: Money in a Dynamic Economy 6. Money in a Classical Economy 7. Money in a Keynesian Economy 8. Should Monetary Policy be Active? 9. Is Monetary Policy Active? Part IV: Governing Money 10. Measuring Monetary Services 11. Organizing the Production of Monetary Services 12. The Case of the ‘Fed’ Part V: Intermediation, Governance and Economic Performance 13. Asymmetric Information 14. Financial Intermediaries and their Governance 15. Corporate Governance 16. Financial Development and Economic Performance Questions Bibliography Index