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Comparative political economy : a retrospective /

"Charles P. Kindleberger's distinguished career has spanned nearly six decades. The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history, especially financial history. They also contain dollop...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kindleberger, Charles P., 1910-2003
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Foreign Exchange
  • 2. Competitive Currency Depreciation between Denmark and New Zealand
  • 3. The Case for Fixed Exchange Rates, 1969
  • International Trade
  • 4. Group Behavior and International Trade
  • 5. The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820-1875
  • Economic Growth
  • 6. Germany's Overtaking of England, 1806-1914
  • 7. The Aging Economy
  • 8. Standards as Public, Collective, and Private Goods
  • Finance
  • 9. The Dollar and World Liquidity: A Minority View / Charles P. Kindleberger, Emile Despres and Walter S. Salant
  • 10. Measuring Equilibrium in the Balance of Payments
  • 11. The Formation of Financial Centers
  • 12. Anatomy of a Typical Crisis
  • 13. Gresham's Law
  • 14. British Financial Reconstruction, 1815-1822 and 1918-1925
  • 15. Intermediation, Disintermediation, and Direct Trading
  • Political Economy
  • 16. The Politics of International Money and World Language
  • 17. The International Monetary Politics of a Near-Great Power: Two French Episodes, 1926-1936 and 1960-1970
  • 18. An Explanation of the 1929 Depression
  • 19. Economic Responsibility
  • 20. International Public Goods without International Government
  • 21. Rules vs Men: Lessons from a Century of Monetary Policy.