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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786657303321

Autore

Viotti Paul

Titolo

Dollar and National Security [[electronic resource] ] : The Monetary Component of Hard Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-8047-9230-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

355/.033073

Soggetti

Dollar, American -- History

Foreign exchange -- Europe -- History

Foreign exchange -- United States -- History

Monetary policy -- Europe -- History

Monetary policy -- United States -- History

National security -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History

National security -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History

National security - History - Economic aspects - United States

Foreign exchange - History - United States

Monetary policy - History - United States

Dollar, American - History - Europe

National security - History - Economic aspects - Europe

Foreign exchange - History - Europe

Monetary policy - History

Business & Economics

Economic History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Money and Security -- 1. Money, Empire, and Prewar Security -- 2. Wartime Security and Monetary Exchange in the Great War -- 3. Restoring Sterling, Commerce, and Security after World War I -- 4. Money and Cooperative Security, the Interwar Years, and World War II -- 5. Cold War and the Bretton Woods Years -- 6. Sustaining



Dollar Primacy— From Bretton Woods to Managed Flexibility -- 7. The Dollar, the Euro, and Cooperative Security -- Conclusion: Money and Cooperative Security -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Defense establishments and the armed forces they organize, train, equip, and deploy depend upon the security of capital and capital flows, mechanisms that have become increasingly globalized. Military capabilities are thus closely tied not only to the size of the economic base from which they are drawn, but also to the viability of global convertibility and exchange arrangements. Although the general public has a stake in these economic matters, the interests and interpretive understandings held by policy elites matter most-in particular those among the owners or managers of capital who focus