Currency convertibility : the gold standard and beyond / / edited by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Barry Eichengreen, and Jaime Reis
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| Titolo: |
Currency convertibility : the gold standard and beyond / / edited by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Barry Eichengreen, and Jaime Reis
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 332.422209 |
| 332.452 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Money - History - 20th century |
| Currency convertibility - History - 20th century | |
| Gold standard - History - 20th century | |
| Altri autori: |
MacedoJorge Braga de
EichengreenBarry J
ReisJaime
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminaries; CONTENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE OPERATION OF THE SPECIE STANDARD; 3 THE ORIGINS OF THE GOLD STANDARD; 4 SHORT-TERM CAPITAL MOVEMENTS UNDER THE GOLD STANDARD; 5 THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE GOLD STANDARD Barry Eichengreen Marc Flandreau; 6 FIRST TO JOIN THE GOLD STANDARD, 1854; 7 LAST TO JOIN THE GOLD STANDARD, 1931; 8 MONETARY STABILITY, FISCAL DISCIPLINE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; 9 CONVERGING TOWARDS A EUROPEAN CURRENCY STANDARD; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The spread of currency convertibility is one of the most dramatic trends of the late twentieth century. It reflects the desire of policymakers to integrate their economies into the global trading system and to attract financial capital and direct investment from abroad.In this book a team of leading international economists and economic historians look at parallel situations in the history of the international monetary system, focusing in particular on the gold standard. The concluding chapter uses a case study of modern Portugal to draw out implications for modern international monetary |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Currency convertibility |
| ISBN: | 0-88132-144-3 |
| 1-134-82568-4 | |
| 1-134-82569-2 | |
| 1-280-13973-0 | |
| 0-203-98429-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816936303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge explorations in economic history ; ; 3.