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UNINA9910452196203321 |
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Autore |
Hinds Manuel |
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Titolo |
Playing monopoly with the devil [[electronic resource] ] : dollarization and domestic currencies in developing countries / / Manuel Hinds |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006 |
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1-281-73054-8 |
9786611730543 |
0-300-12977-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (xxxix, 255 p.) ) : ill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Money - Developing countries |
Currency question - Developing countries |
Monetary policy - Developing countries |
Electronic books. |
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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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"A Council on Foreign Relations book." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248) and index. |
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The standard of value and the reversed liquidity trap -- The unfulfilled promises in the financial system -- The unfulfilled promises in trade and growth -- The costs of stability -- Missing financial globalization -- The financial risks of monetary regimes -- The currency origins of financial crises -- The myth of the lender of last resort -- The solution of crises and the aftermath -- The counterfactuals -- The conventional optimal currency area theory -- Toward a redefinition of an optimal currency area. |
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Why should a developing country surrender its power to create money by adopting an international currency as its own? This comprehensive book explores the currency problems that developing countries face and offers sound, practical advice for policy makers on how to deal with them. Manuel Hinds, who has extensive experience in real-world economic policy making, challenges the myths that surround domestic currencies and shows the clear rationality for dollarization or the use of a standard international currency.The book opens with an entertaining story of the Devil, who, through a series of common macroeconomic maneuvers, coaches the president of a mythical country into financial |
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ruin. This ruler's path is not unlike that taken in several real developing countries, to their detriment. Hinds goes on to introduce new ways of thinking about financial systems and monetary behavior in Third World countries. |
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UNISA996393085403316 |
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Autore |
Chetwynd John <1623-1692.> |
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The watch charged. Or, a warning to God's watch-men [[electronic resource] ] : Being a sermon preached at Bridge-water in the county of Somerset on the 29. day of September 1658. which was a day set apart for ordination, and the generall meeting of the associated ministers in that county. / / By John Chetwind, Mr. of Arts, preacher of the gospel, and one of the joynt-pastors for the city and parish of Cuthberts in Wells |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London, : Printed by Roger Daniel, and are to be sold by Edward Brewster at the sign of the Crane in Paul's Church-yard., 1659 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Sermons, English - 17th century |
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Monografia |
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Annotation on Thomason copy: "March 11"; also the last number of the imprint date has been marked through and replaced with an "8". |
Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
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