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Della Paolera Gerardo <1959-> |
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Straining at the anchor [[electronic resource] ] : the Argentine Currency Board and the search for macroeconomic stability, 1880-1935 / / Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2001 |
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1-281-22390-5 |
9786611223908 |
0-226-64558-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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NBER series on long-term factors in economic development |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Currency boards - Argentina - History |
Currency question - Argentina - History |
Monetary policy - Argentina - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-265) and indexes. |
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Front matter -- National Bureau of Economic Research -- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Cartoons -- A Note on the Cover -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Anchors Aweigh: The Drift toward Crisis in the 1880's -- 3. A Monetary and Financial Wreck: The Baring Crisis, 1890-91 -- 4. Collision Course: Macroeconomic Policies and the Crash -- 5. Relaunching the Gold Standard: From Monetary "Anemia'' to "Plethora'' and the Political Economy of Resumption, 1891-99 -- 6. Calm Before a Storm: The Gold Standard During the Belle Époque, 1899-1914 -- 7. Distress Signals: Financial Fragility in the Interwar Period -- 8. Bailing Out: Internal versus External Convertibility -- 9. Steering through the Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime -- 10. Postscript -- Appendix 1. Historical Statistics -- Appendix 2. The Law of National Guaranteed Banks -- Appendix 3. Money Supply Periodization, 1884-1913 -- Appendix 4. |
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Money and Exchange Rates, 1884-1913 -- Appendix 5. Instituto Movilizador de Inversiones Bancarias -- Appendix 6. Humor, Politics, and the Economy -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
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The "Argentine disappointment"-why Argentina persistently failed to achieve sustained economic stability during the twentieth century-is an issue that has mystified scholars for decades. In Straining the Anchor, Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor provide many of the missing links that help explain this important historical episode. Written chronologically, this book follows the various fluctuations of the Argentine economy from its post-revolutionary volatility to a period of unprecedented prosperity to a dramatic decline from which the country has never fully recovered. The authors examine in depth the solutions that Argentina has tried to implement such as the Caja de Conversión, the nation's first currency board which favored a strict gold-standard monetary regime, the forerunner of the convertibility plan the nation has recently adopted. With many countries now using-or seriously contemplating-monetary arrangements similar to Argentina's, this important and persuasive study maps out one of history's most interesting monetary experiments to show what works and what doesn't. |
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UNINA9910493696903321 |
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Lockhart Ellen |
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Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 / / Ellen Lockhart |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations |
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Dramatic music - Italy - 18th century |
Dramatic music - Italy - 19th century |
Operas - Literary themes, motives |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Attentive Statues -- 2. Pimmalione -- 3. Defining Italy in Haunted Rome -- 4. Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy -- 5. Giuditta Pasta and the History of Musical Electrification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index |
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This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa. As Lockhart reveals, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 1770-1830. Taking as its point of departure a repertoire of Italian ballets, melodramas, and operas from this period, Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy traces its core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism. |
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