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Autore |
Viotti Paul |
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Titolo |
Dollar and National Security [[electronic resource] ] : The Monetary Component of Hard Power |
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Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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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 contenuto |
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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 |
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Dollar Primacy— From Bretton Woods to Managed Flexibility -- 7. The Dollar, the Euro, and Cooperative Security -- Conclusion: Money and Cooperative Security -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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