Globalizing capital : a history of the international monetary system / Barry Eichengreen.
1998
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Author
Title
Globalizing capital : a history of the international monetary system / Barry Eichengreen.
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Copyright
©1996
Call Number
HG3881 .E347 1998
Edition
New and updated edition.
ISBN
0691002452
069102880X
069102880X
Description
viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)39902582
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-220) and index.
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History of the international monetary system
Table of Contents
Preface
Ch. 1
Introduction
3
Ch. 2
The Gold Standard
7
Prehistory
8
The Dilemmas of Bimetallism
9
The Lure of Bimetallism
13
The Advent of the Gold Standard
15
Shades of Gold
20
How the Gold Standard Worked
25
The Gold Standard as a Historically Specific Institution
30
International Solidarity
32
The Gold Standard and the Lender of Last Resort
35
Instability at the Periphery
38
The Stability of the System
42
Ch. 3
Interwar Instability
45
Chronology
46
Experience with Floating: The Controversial Case of the Franc
51
Reconstructing the Gold Standard
57
The New Gold Standard
61
Problems of the New Gold Standard
63
The Pattern of International Payments
68
Responses to the Great Depression
72
Banking Crises and Their Management
75
Disintegration of the Gold Standard
77
Sterling's Crisis
80
The Dollar Follows
85
Managed Floating
88
Conclusions
91
Ch. 4
The Bretton Woods System
93
Wartime Planning and Its Consequences
96
The Sterling Crisis and the Realignment of European Currencies
102
The European Payments Union
106
Payments Problems and Selective Controls
109
Convertibility: Problems and Progress
113
Special Drawing Rights
117
Declining Controls and Rising Rigidity
120
The Battle for Sterling
125
The Crisis of the Dollar
128
Ch. 5
From Floating to Monetary Unification
136
Floating Exchange Rates in the 1970s
139
Floating Exchange Rates in the 1980s
145
The Snake
152
The European Monetary System
160
Renewed Impetus for Integration
167
The EMS Crisis
171
Understanding the Crisis
175
The Experience of Developing Countries
181
Conclusions
186
Ch. 6
Conclusion
188
Glossary
193
References
201
Index
217