Monetary Economics, Banking and Policy: Expanding Economic Thought to Meet Contemporary Challenges

This edited collection seeks to advance thinking on money and the monetary nature of the economy, macroeconomic analysis and economic policy, setting it within the context of current scholarship and global socioeconomic concerns, and the crisis in the economics discipline. A key aim is to highlight the central contribution that Sheila Dow has made to these fields.

Bringing together an impressive panel of contributors, this volume explores topics including central bank independence, liquidity preferences, money supply endogeneity, financial regulation, regional finance and public debt.

The essays in this first collection of two will be thought-provoking reading for advanced students and scholars of macroeconomics, monetary economics, central banking and heterodox economics. Contributors have a broad range of professional experience at universities, central banks, business, development institutions and policy advisories.

Penelope Hawkins is Senior Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD, specializing in public indebtedness of developing countries, financing for development and financial inclusion. As Founder and Managing Director of Feasibility (Pty) Ltd, she previously undertook leading research projects in the financial sector in Southern Africa. Orcid.org/0000-0002-2395-2499

Ioana Negru is Reader in Economics at University ’Lucian Blaga’ Sibiu. She is the Co-editor of Ethical Formation of Economists (2019) with Wilfred Dolfsma and Gift in Economy and Society (2020), with Stefan Kesting and Paolo Silvestry. She is a member of the Skidelsky Committee for improving the economics curriculum worldwide.