Instruments in The Redeemer's Hands

In the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife. Drum machines and synthesisers appeared alongside lilting guitar lines and punchy horns, and the emerging Ghanaian diaspora began incorporating US disco and boogie, R&B, European new wave, and Caribbean zouk and soca into their music.

This book attempts to inform the reader in a comprehensive and accessible way about the analytical background and institutional setting of euro area monetary policy. Based on a rigorous description of selected financial markets and their driving forces, the theory and practice of monetary policy are explained in detail and illustrated by a number of up-to-date real world examples.