A history of monetary unions / / John Chown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819688803321
• Autore: Chown John F. <1929->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2003
• ISBN: 1-134-47302-8; 0-429-23133-4; 1-134-47303-6; 1-280-07154-0; 9786610071548; 0-203-41778-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Collana: Routledge international studies in money and banking ; ; 21
• Disciplina: 332.4/566
• Soggetti: Monetary unions - History
• 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: 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 ; in the 1930s; The Russian Revolution and after; The monetary consequences of the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire; Austria after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire; Other former members of the Austro-Hungarian empire; Germany and Austria in the 1930s; Scandinavia and the Baltic states: the Nordic Monetary Union; Bretton Woods and its collapse: the postwar monetary order; Money after the Second World War: general introduction; Bretton Woods and the IMF; Postwar monetary reconstructions; The UK 1945 51; Europe 1945 58: bilateral to multilateral paymentsThe UK 1951 79; The collapse of Bretton Woods; The road to European Monetary Union; Early moves towards European Monetary Union; The reunification of Germany and the collapse of the EMS; European Monetary Union: 1988 99; European Monetary Union: policy issues; Parallel currency proposals; Exchange control; Money and the collapse of communism: some monetary disunions; The collapse of the Soviet Union; The end of the rouble zone; The twelve CIS countries following monetary disunion; The Baltic states from 1991: successful monetary reforms; The break-up of YugoslaviaTransitional and other EU applicant countries; The break-up of the sterling area: the contrasting experience of the French territories and some recent proposed unions; The end of the sterling area; The Irish pound; The former French colonies: the CFA franc zone; Monetary unions in former colonies; Two monetary unions that didn't happen: US/Canada and ANZAC; Postwar Latin America and the Far East; Postwar Latin America; Hong Kong and the Far East post-1945; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this comprehensive historical overview, the author writes about Monetary Unions with admirable completeness. Written in a readable and enjoyable prose, A History of Monetary Unions combines historical analysis with present day context.