Hobbes is famous for his early and elaborate development of what has come to be known as âsocial contract theoryâ, the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons.
TODAY the European Central Bank (ECB) launches its long-awaited programme of quantitative easing (or QE), adding lots of public debt to the private kind it has already been buying. Its monthly purchases will rise from around â¬13 billion ($14 billion) to â¬60 billion until at least September 2016.
tramadol long term usage side effects. QE is one, perhaps the most important, of a range of tools often described as unconventional monetary policies. That is quite an understatement. Throwing huge sums of money at the financial markets is something that would normally bring a central banker out in a cold sweat.