Banking, monetary policy and the political economy of financial regulation : essays in the tradition of Jane D'Arista / edited by Gerald A. Epstein, Tom Schlesinger, Mats Vernengo.

'The papers in this book were originally presented at a conference in honor to Jane D'Arista in the spring of 2008 at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst'--Page 3 of text.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jane D'Arista : an appreciation / Tom Schlesinger -- Introduction / Gerald A. Epstein, Tom Schelsinger and Mats Vernengo -- From Milton Friedman to Jane D'Arista : the financial crisis and the dilemma facing the central banks / James K. Galbraith -- Federal Reserve priorities and the influence of capital : the evolution of monetary policy in the postwar period / Martin H. Wolfson -- Heterodox central bankers : Eccles, Prebisch and financial reform / Mats Vernengo and Esteban Pez Caldentey -- Nurturing US securities firms : a century of public policy / Robert N. McCauley -- Lessons from the Glass-Steagall Act / Ellen D. Russell -- The financial trilemma and the future of American banking / Gary A. Dymski -- Boulevard to broken dreams : the standards-surveillance-compliance system in the run-up to the Crash of 2008 / Robert H. Wade -- Would a North American monetary union protect Canada and Mexico against the ravages of'Dutch disease'? A post-financial crisis perspective / Robert A. Blecker and Mario Seccareccia -- Rethinking the economics of financial capital mobility and capital controls / Thomas Palley -- Global economic volatility and slap-dash repairs to the international financial architecture / Patrick Bond -- Liquidity, leverage, and financial instability / Lance Taylor -- The decline of traditional banking and endogenous money / Korkut Ert✹k and G诫{u3972} ✹g✹ -- A new measure of liquidity premium / Perry Mehrling and Daniel H. Neilson -- The last refuge of scoundrels : Keynes-Minsky perspectives on the uses and abuses of the'liquidity defense' / James Crotty and Gerald A. Epstein -- A note on growth and distribution dynamics in an economy with population aging / Codrina Rada.