Money, Credit and Inflation by Gordon Pepper

Money, Credit and Inflation by Gordon Pepper

An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year

An excellent writer and a marvelous storyteller. . . . He creates a special world on Shepherd Avenue that I loved to enter and hated to leave. -Ferrol Sams

From acclaimed author Charlie Carillo comes a poignant, darkly funny, coming-of-age story set in the heart of Italian-American Brooklyn, New York, and the heat of one eventful 1960s summer . . .

Ten-year-old Joey Ambrosio has barely begun to grieve his mother's death when his father abruptly uproots him from his sedate suburban Long Island home, and deposits him at his estranged grandparents' house in boisterous East New York. While his dad takes off on an indefinite road trip, Joey is left to navigate unfamiliar terrain. Besides his gruff Italian grandparents, there's his teenage Uncle Vic, a baseball star obsessed with the music of Frank Sinatra; a steady diet of soulful, hearty foods he's never tasted, and a community teeming with life, from endless gossip and arguments to curse-laden stickball games under the elevated train. It's a world where privacy doesn't exist and there's no time to feel sorry for yourself. Most of all, it's where Joey learns not only how to fight, and how to heal, but how to love-and ultimately, how to forgive.

Praise for Charlie Carillo and Raising Jake

The best kind of journey, one you don't want to end.funny, moving. -Mike Lupica

In the tradition of Tom Perotta.truthful, and hilarious. -Alison Grambs

A literary romp through the minefields of a totally normal, and totally abnormal, family. I actually laughed out loud and kept turning the pages to make absolutely sure that all worked out at the end. -Cathy Lamb

Carillo has an easy way with breezy prose and likable characters. -Publishers Weekly

Gordon Pepper has the unusual combination of an economics degree from Cambridge and actuarial training. Immediately after he finished taking examinations, he became a dealer on the Floor of the London Stock Exchange. His 'postgraduate university' was the market place, where he underwent the harshest of disciplines. Forecasts based on conventional theories were often wrong. The inescapable conclusion was that these theories were either incorrect or incomplete.
Pepper was the joint founder of W. Greenwell & Co's gilt-edged business (that is, the UK government bond business), which arguably became one of the leading bond-advisory businesses in the world, the advice being about both the best investments and the optimum way to execute business. For more than ten years he was the premier analyst in the gilt-edged market and was often described as the guru of that market. He was the principal author of Greenwell's Monetary Bulletin, which, in the 1970s, became one of the most widely read monetary publications produced in the United Kingdom.
Pepper is the author of three books and the co-author of a fourth: Money, Credit and Inflation (1990), Money, Credit and Asset Prices (1994), Inside Thatcher's Monetarist Revolution (1998), and (with Michael Oliver) Monetarism under Thatcher - Lessons for the Future (2001). He is also chairman of Lombard Street Research Ltd, which is one of the UK's leading independent firms carrying out investment research and specialising in analysis of money, credit and flows of funds. Summarising, Pepper's particular strength is the combination of practitioner and academic. Above all, he writes with great authority from his knowledge of what actually happens in the marketplace.

Michael J. Oliver is currently Professor of Economics at ü¾Ž–Œ¼cole Supü¾Ž–”¼rieure de Commerce de Rennes and a director of Lombard Street Associates, UK.
He graduated in economic history at the University of Leicester and was awarded his PhD in economics and economic history from Manchester Metropolitan University. He has held posts at the universities of the West of England, Leeds, Sunderland and has been a Visiting Professor at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania and Colby College, Maine.
He is the author of several books, including Whatever Happened To Monetarism? Economic Policy-making and Social Learning in the United Kingdom Since 1979 (1997); Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century (with Derek Aldcroft, 1998) and Monetarism under Thatcher - Lessons for the Future (with Gordon Pepper, 2001). He has just finished co-editing a book (with Derek Aldcroft) entitled Economic Disaster of the Twentieth Century, which is being published by Edward Elgar in 2006. He has contributed articles to Economic History Review, Twentieth Century British History, Economic Affairs, Contemporary British History, Economic Review and Essays in Economic and Business History.

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ISBN 13	9780255362283
ISBN 10	0255362285
Title	Money, Credit and Inflation
Author	Gordon Pepper
Series	Research Monograph
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Institute of Economic Affairs
Year published	1990-04-19
Number of pages	80
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