Money

Mohammad Ashraf is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA, where he has taught economics and statistics courses since 1999. His research interests include macroeconomics and monetary economics, economic growth and development, and gender discrimination in the labor market. He is the author of Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets: Growth and Development in the Modern Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and numerous research articles that have appeared in scholarly journals including Contemporary Economics Policy, Annals of Economics and Finance, Applied Economic Letters, Journal of Economics (MVEA), Journal of Economic Insight, and Journal of Education for Business.

• 1. Why Another Book about Money?.- 2. Imagine a World Without Money.- 3. A Brief History of Money.- 4. Saving, Lending, Borrowing, and the Banking Sector.- 5. Central Banks, Monetary Policy, and the Economy.- 6. The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 and the Great Recession.- 7. Economic Growth and the Role of Money.- 8. Money in an Interconnected World.- 9. Some Concluding Thoughts.