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Straining at the anchor : the Argentine Currency Board and the search for macroeconomic stability, 1880-1935 /

The "Argentine disappointment"?why Argentina persistently failed to achieve sustained economic stability during the twentieth century?is an issue that has mystified scholars for decades. In Straining the Anchor, Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor provide many of the missing links tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Della Paolera, Gerardo, 1959-
Otros Autores: Taylor, Alan M., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Colección:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Historical and Methodological Context; 1 Introduction; 2 Anchors Aweigh: The Drift toward Crisis in the 1880s; Part Two: The Baring Crisis and Its Origins; 3 A Monetary and Financial Wreck: The Baring Crisis, 1890-91; 4 Collision Course: Macroeconomic Policies and the Crash; Part Three: The Making of the Belle Epoque; 5 Relaunching the Gold Standard: From Monetary "Anemia" to "Plethora" and the Political Economy of Resumption, 1891-99.
  • 6 Calm Before a Storm: The Gold Standard During the Belle Époque, 1899-1914Part Four: The Travails of the Interwar Years; 7 Distress Signals: Financial Fragility in the Interwar Period; 8 Bailing Out: Internal versus External Convertibility; 9 Steering through the Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime; Part Five: Postscript; 10 Postscript; Appendix 1 Historical Statistics; App.