Nation-states and money [[electronic resource] ] : the past, present and future of national currencies / / edited by Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451036803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : New York, : Routledge, c1999
• ISBN: 0-429-23219-5; 0-203-45982-2; 1-134-65818-4; 1-280-06189-8; 0-203-45093-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Collana: Routledge/RIPE studies in global political economy ; ; 2
• Altri autori (Persone): GilbertEmily <1969->; HelleinerEric <1963->
• Disciplina: 332.4
• Soggetti: Money; Money - Political aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Nation-States and Money; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Series editors' preface; Preface and acknowledge; 1. Introduction - nation-states and money: historical contexts, interdisciplinary perspectives: Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner; Part I: Nations, states and currencies in historical perspective; 2. Forging a national currency: money, state-building and nation-making in Canada: Emily Gilbert; 3. 'The Scotch hate gold': British identity and paper money: Matthew Rowlinson; 4. Local currencies in pre-industrial Japan: Makoto Maruyama; 5. Official standardisation vs. social differentiation in Americans' uses of money: Viviana Zelizer6. A distant view: imagery and imagination in the paper currency of the British Empire, 1800-1960: Virginia Hewitt; Part II: Challenges to national currencies in the contemporary age; 7. The new geography of money: Benjamin Cohen; 8. Denationalising money?: economic liberalism and the 'national question' in currency ; affairs: Eric Helleiner; 9. Moral geographies of money: Nigel Thrift and Andrew Leyshon; 10. Globalisation of money?: national sovereignty and the management of risk: Nigel Dodd; 11. The logic of giving up national currencies: lessons from Europe's monetary union: Amy Verdun12. Conclusion - the future of national currencies?: Eric Helleiner; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of a supranational currency by the year 2000. Elsewhere, the use of foreign currencies within national economic spaces is on the increase, as shown by the growth of eurocurrency activity, and currency substitution in many parts of the world. In the last decade, privately-issued sub-national local currencies have also proliferated in a number of countries, and predict the emergence of private electronic monies of the future. In the light of t