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Autore: |
Chown John F. <1929, >
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Titolo: |
A history of monetary unions / / John Chown
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Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
Disciplina: | 332.4/566 |
Soggetto topico: | Monetary unions - History |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A history of monetary unions ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-429-23133-4 |
1-134-47303-6 | |
1-280-07154-0 | |
9786610071548 | |
0-203-41778-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910450195603321 |
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