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by Paul Sheard (Author)
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Money permeates our everyday lives--it literally makes the economic world go round--and yet confusion and controversy about money abound. In The Power of Money, economist Paul Sheard distills what money is, how it comes into existence, and how it interacts with the real economy. Money issues dominate the news, but economic jargon and the complexity of it all can be bamboozling. Leading economist Paul Sheard is known for his ability to see the forest and the trees and demystify complex economic phenomena. With The Power of Money, Sheard empowers readers to become better-informed economic citizens by providing context for some of the biggest questions surrounding money, such as:Author Biography
Paul J. Sheard, an Australian American economist, is the former Vice Chairman of S&P Global and a former Senior Fellow and Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He has held global chief economist positions at Standard & Poor's, Nomura Securities, and Lehman Brothers. Earlier he held faculty positions at Osaka University and at the Australian National University, and held visiting scholar positions at Stanford University and the Bank of Japan. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the New Agenda for Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Economic Club of New York, and the Foreign Policy Association.
