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The making of national money : territorial currencies in historical perspective /
Why should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique perspective on this question in his accessible history of the origins of national money. Our contemporary understandings of national currency are, Helleiner shows, surprisingly recent. Based on st...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The initial transformation : from monetary heterogeneity to territorial currencies
- Two structural preconditions : nation-states and industrial technology
- Making markets : transaction costs and monetary reform
- Multiple macroeconomic and fiscal motivations
- National identities and territorial currencies
- Two nineteenth-century challenges : currency unions and free banking
- The coming of age of territorial currencies in the interwar years
- The monetary dimensions of imperialism : colonial currency reforms
- The final wave : post-1945 macroeconomic activism and southern reforms.