Post-Colonialisms Today researcher Chafik Ben Rouine looks to Tunisia’s post-independence central banking method to provide insight on what progressive monetary policy can look like.

2020

Level: beginner

Monetary Policy for Development, During and Beyond Crisis

Chafik Ben Rouine

Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org

The piece describes some of the effects that Nixon's decision to delink the dollar from gold in the 1970s had for the relationship between the IMF and its member states. A focus is on the negative effects of this change on societies in the Global South.

2021

Level: beginner

Nixon’s decision to delink the dollar from gold still hounds the IMF, South Africa and Africa

Danny Bradlow

The Conversation

More than a century after Hartley Withers's "The Meaning of Money" and 80 years after Keynes's "Treatise on Money", the fundamentals of how banks create money still needs explaining and this book meets that need with clear exposition and expert marshalling of the relevant facts.

2014

Level: advanced

Where Does Money Come From?

Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner, Andrew Jackson

New Economics Foundation

Why do we think that sovereign debt must be repaid--even after a major regime change--in order to maintain country creditworthiness? In a fascinating and highly original book, Odette Lienau argues that this conventional wisdom is overly simplistic and in some respects entirely wrong.

2014

Level: beginner

Rethinking Sovereign Debt

Lienau, Odette

Harvard University Press

This interactive and practice-oriented course updated in 2021 covers the basics of Sustainable Finance including sustainable finance instruments, methodologies and frameworks for integrating sustainability into financial decisions, key global sustainable finance initiatives, and sustainable finance regulations.

2018

Level: beginner

Introduction to Sustainable Finance

Liesel van Ast, Christopher Flensborg, Lina Apsheva, Dominik Brunner, Yannick Motz, Charlotte Waldraff, Makaio Witte, Luis Maldonado, Isabel Mantilla, Rory Sullivan

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Some economic events are so major and unsettling that they “change everything.” Such is the case with the financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 and is still a drag on the world economy. Yet enough time has now elapsed for economists to consider questions that run deeper than the usual focus on the immediate causes and consequences of the crisis.

2013

Level: advanced

Rethinking the Financial Crisis

Alan S. Blinder, Andrew W. Loh, Robert M. Solow

Russell Sage Foundation