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The Złoty

A Polish Odyssey 1924-2024

Av Harold James, Marzenna James

Del i serien Studies in Macroeconomic History

1674 kr

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The Złoty draws on recently available Polish archival material from central banks and international institutions to show how long-lived debates about inflation have been central in Polish political history. It offers surprising revelations about the drama of the evacuation and legal treatment of the central bank's gold after the German invasion of 1939 and the long struggle for economic and monetary reform while Poland was part of the Soviet system, going back to the late 1950s. It includes interwar and post-1990 sections that give an exemplary case of how a country on the periphery of the international economic system tried hard to integrate, ultimately failing in the first instance, while succeeding with dramatic success over the past thirty-five years. Written in gripping and non-technical language, this book offers a scholarly yet accessible account of Poland's struggles with inflation, foreign debt, and Nazi and communist rule.
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Harold James is Professor in History and International Affairs and Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies at Princeton University. His books include The German Slump (1986), International Monetary Cooperation since Bretton Woods (1996), The End of Globalization (2001), and recently Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979-2003 (2020) and Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization (2023). Marzenna James is a lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University, in the Politics Department and the School of Public and International Affairs. She has published on economic power in Obserwator Finansowy, Kultura i Społeczeństwo and Studia Polityczne in the 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 volumes in the Library of Economic Thought Series of The Polish Economic Society, Warsaw.

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'Harold and Marzenna James show us how the history of the Polish currency illuminates so many aspects of Polish history over the last 100 years. From the astonishing Odyssey of Poland's gold reserves after 1939 to the role played by debt in the Polish transition from communism, this is much more than simply monetary history. The use of a wide range of primary sources, as well as interviews, contributes to making this a work of scrupulous and revealing scholarship.' Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, and Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Author of The Polish Revolution: Solidarity and Homelands – A Personal History of Europe

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