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Autore |
Chown John F. <1929, > |
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Titolo |
A history of monetary unions / / John Chown |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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1-134-47302-8 |
0-429-23133-4 |
1-134-47303-6 |
1-280-07154-0 |
9786610071548 |
0-203-41778-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (382 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge international studies in money and banking ; ; 21 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Monetary unions - History |
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Formato |
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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; The economics of currency arrangements: the principles of monetary union; General introduction; The gold standard; Fixed versus floating exchange rates; Types of 'fixed' monetary arrangement; Monetary unions; Exchange control and currency reconstructions; Some early history; Monetary union in post-Napoleonic Europe: the key issue of bimetallism; The Napoleonic Wars and after: bimetallism; Monetary union in Germany, Italy and Switzerland; The Austro-Hungarian empire as a monetary union: history to 1914; The Latin Monetary Union |
The collapse of bimetallismThe United States in the nineteenth century; The silver countries, Russia and the sterling area pre-1914; The collapse of bimetallism in the Eastern silver countries: a 'monetary disunion'?; Japan and Korea; Latin America in the nineteenth century; Money in Russia before the Revolution; The British empire and the sterling area: an accidental monetary union?; The early twentieth century and the collapse of the gold standard: the triumph of fiat currencies; Introduction to the early twentieth century; The Great War and its aftermath; Germany and the great inflation |
The temporary return to gold and the Great DepressionMonetary chaos |
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