A Multi-Gear Strategy for Economic Recovery

by A. Rayman

Overview

Volume II proposes radical reform (1) of the accounting system – to bring corporate management under the control of market forces; and (2) of the tax system – to enable the economy to grow to its full potential and to establish an automatic mechanism for price stability without any arbitrary intervention.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349453719
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anthony Rayman is the author of articles on economics, accounting, and taxation in professional and academic journals and in the financial press. His books include Price Stability and Full Employment (London: Political and Economic Planning (PEP), 1975), Economics Through the Looking-Glass (London: Ashgate, 1998), and Accounting Standards: True or False? (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006).

Table of Contents

Preface: Modern Economics: Toxic Theory and Bankrupt Policy PART I: TWO BASIC LAWS OF ECONOMICS 1. The Law of Competition and the Law of Circulation PART II: THE LOST COMMANDMENT: FREEDOM OF CIRCULATION 2. 'Level Playing-Field' or Flat-Earth Theory? 3. The Greatest Economic Theorist of Them All 4. Globalization: Blessing or Curse? PART III: A 'MULTI-GEAR' MACROECONOMIC POLICY 5. Inflation: Disease or Symptom of Good Health? 6. Economic Waste-Disposal 7. The Deregulation of Money 8. Economic Gear-Changing PART IV: THE REFORM OF ECONOMIC POLICY 9. The IASB and the Failure of Corporate Governance Appendix: Sandilands in the looking glass 10. A Segregated System of Funds and Value Accounting 11. Competition and Control of the Banking System 12. Circulation and Single-Currency Unions Part A: The United Kingdom Currency Union Part B: The European Currency Union 13. A Crack in the Monetarist Façade? 14. A Multi-Gear Strategy for Stable Economic Growth PART V: THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS 15. The Phoney Economic Crisis 16. The 'Austerity' Delusion 17. The Real Economic Crisis 18. The Bankruptcy of Single-Gear Economic Policy 19. Multi-Gear Tax Reform for Economic Recovery PART VI: THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COVER-UP IN FINANCIAL HISTORY? 20. Expert Opinion and Economy with the Truth 21. Modern Science or Mediaeval Religion? Appendix: Whatever Happened to the 'Rule of Law'

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