Includes glossary and index.

Contents: An exploration of long-term macroeconomic trends. -- Musings on short- and medium- run macroeconomic policies. -- Public policy and microeconomic regulation. -- Education financing: government as rick manager?. -- On fiscal policy rules and avoiding public debt crises. -- Population ageing, pension systems and retirement financing. -- Economics and policy of climate change. -- Past and future of monetary policy. -- Banking, financial markets and crises. -- The 2008 global financial turmoil: an inside-policy view. -- Central banks and governments: cooperation of conflict?. -- The European currency union: will the Euro survive?. -- Save or spend? on managing personal finances.