The Future of Finance: A New Model for Banking and Investment
Financial markets have always promised, and often delivered, prosperity. But, during the last decade, the structure and behavior of financial markets themselves helped create the conditions for an economic implosion that resulted in a banking crisis, recession, and wholesale loss of investor confidence.
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person’s or government’s control.
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The Story of Time
A world without time! It could be a chaotic place to live in. Man has been trying ever to reckon time. He watched nature's clocks-the rising and setting of the sun, changing of the seasons, growth of a body and mutation in all creation. From shadow sticks to sundials to waterclocks to the present day clocks that are acurate to one millionth of a second and further-it is indeed the story of time. A most significant idea that has resulted through untiring research is the concept of time-space-continuum as an indivisible unity. Time remains a scientific mystry!
Except for the correction of a few typographical errors, this version of my thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on 31 March, 1988 is materially identical to the copies deposited with the Faculty of Arts and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. However, in order to make this web version more readable on a screen, some of the fonts have been changed, as well as other small changes made to the appearance of some tables and figures. These changes have resulted in changes to the pagination of the original thesis.
