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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
John F Chown |
| ISBN: | 041527737X 9780415277372 |
| OCLC Number: | 50773344 |
| Description: | ix, 369 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The economics of currency arrangements: the principles of monetary union -- Monetary union in post-Napoleonic Europe: the key issue of bimetallism -- The silver countries, Russia and the sterling area pre-1914 -- The early twentieth century and the collapse of the gold standard: the triumph of fiat currencies -- Monetary chaos in the 1930s -- Bretton Woods and its collapse: the postwar monetary order -- The road to European Monetary Union -- Money and the collapse of communism: some monetary disunions -- The break-up of the sterling area: the contrasting experience of the French territories and some recent proposed unions -- Postwar Latin America and the Far East. |
| Series Title: | Routledge international studies in money and banking, 21. |
| Responsibility: | John Chown. |
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Abstract:
In this comprehensive historical overview, the author writes about monetary unions with completeness and covers such themes as: the Gold Standard; and monetary unions in countries and areas from Latin America to The British Empire to Japan and Korea with many in between.
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"The book is excellent as a chronicle of events. It is a useful reference volume on monetary history, with the virtue of being well readable cover to cover.."<br>-Lawrence H. Oficcer, University of Illinois at Chicago, "EH.NET, August 2004 <br>..."this book describes many examples over the years."<br>-"Business Horizons, July-August 2004 <br> Read more...
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