Monetary theory and Bretton Woods : the construction of an international monetary order /

The transformations of the international monetary system after World War I culminated in the transition from gold-based money to inconvertible paper money half-century later. This book argues that advances in monetary theory played a decisive role in these events and, particularly, in the Bretton Wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cesarano, Filippo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:Historical perspectives on modern economics.
Subjects:
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference > (1944 : > Bretton Woods, N.H.) > History.
Conférence monétaire et financière des Nations Unies > (1944 : > Bretton Woods, N.H.)
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference
International finance > History.
Monetary policy > History.
Politique monétaire > Histoire.
Finances internationales > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
International finance
Monetary policy
Internationales Währungssystem
Geldtheorie
Bretton-Woods-System
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • International monetary equilibrium and the properties of the gold standard
  • The international monetary system between the World Wars
  • The monetary system in economic analysis : the critique of the gold standard
  • The Great Depression : overturning the state of the art
  • Providing for a new monetary order
  • The Bretton Woods agreements
  • Bretton Woods and after.

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