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International financial history in the twentieth century : system and anarchy / edited by Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Harold James.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the German Historical InstitutePublisher: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge University Press, 2003Description: x, 278 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521819954
  • 9780521819954
Other title:
  • International financial history in the 20th century
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.0420904 21
LOC classification:
  • HG3881 .I607283 2003
Contents:
Introduction / Marc Flandreau and Harold James -- 1. Caveat Emptor: Coping with Sovereign Risk Under the International Gold Standard, 1871-1913 / Marc Flandreau -- 2. Conduits for Long-Term Foreign Investment in the Gold Standard Era / Mira Wilkins -- 3. The Gold-Exchange Standard: A Reinterpretation / Stephen A. Schuker -- 4. The Bank of France and the Gold Standard, 1914-1928 / Kenneth Moure -- 5. Keyne's Road to Bretton Woods: An Essay in Interpretation / Robert Skidelsky -- 6. Bretton Woods and the European Neutrals, 1944-1973 / Jakob Tanner -- 7. The 1948 Monetary Reform in Western Germany / Charles P. Kindleberger and F. Taylor Ostrander -- 8. The Burden of Power: Military Aspects of International Financial Relations During the Long 1950s / Werner Abelshauser -- 9. Denationalizing Money? Economic Liberalism and the "National Question" in Currency Affairs / Eric Helleiner -- 10. International Financial Institutions and National Economic Governance: Aspects of the New Adjustment Agenda in Historical Perspective / Louis W. Pauly.
Summary: "The essays in this book, written by some of the leading experts in the field, examine the long-run history of the international financial system in the terms of the current debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came in the form of attempts to regulate national capital markets (for instance through the establishment of central banks). In the interwar years, there were (largely unsuccessful) attempts at designing a genuine international trade and monetary system; and at the same time (coincidentally) the system collapsed. In the post-1945 era, the intended design effort was infinitely more successful. The development of large international capital markets since the 1960s, however, increasingly frustrated attempts at international control. The emphasis has shifted in consequence to debates about increasing the transparency and effectiveness of markets; but these are exactly the issues that already dominated the nineteenth century discussions."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Marc Flandreau and Harold James -- 1. Caveat Emptor: Coping with Sovereign Risk Under the International Gold Standard, 1871-1913 / Marc Flandreau -- 2. Conduits for Long-Term Foreign Investment in the Gold Standard Era / Mira Wilkins -- 3. The Gold-Exchange Standard: A Reinterpretation / Stephen A. Schuker -- 4. The Bank of France and the Gold Standard, 1914-1928 / Kenneth Moure -- 5. Keyne's Road to Bretton Woods: An Essay in Interpretation / Robert Skidelsky -- 6. Bretton Woods and the European Neutrals, 1944-1973 / Jakob Tanner -- 7. The 1948 Monetary Reform in Western Germany / Charles P. Kindleberger and F. Taylor Ostrander -- 8. The Burden of Power: Military Aspects of International Financial Relations During the Long 1950s / Werner Abelshauser -- 9. Denationalizing Money? Economic Liberalism and the "National Question" in Currency Affairs / Eric Helleiner -- 10. International Financial Institutions and National Economic Governance: Aspects of the New Adjustment Agenda in Historical Perspective / Louis W. Pauly.

"The essays in this book, written by some of the leading experts in the field, examine the long-run history of the international financial system in the terms of the current debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came in the form of attempts to regulate national capital markets (for instance through the establishment of central banks). In the interwar years, there were (largely unsuccessful) attempts at designing a genuine international trade and monetary system; and at the same time (coincidentally) the system collapsed. In the post-1945 era, the intended design effort was infinitely more successful. The development of large international capital markets since the 1960s, however, increasingly frustrated attempts at international control. The emphasis has shifted in consequence to debates about increasing the transparency and effectiveness of markets; but these are exactly the issues that already dominated the nineteenth century discussions."--Publisher description.

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