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The Economics of World War II
Six Great Powers in International Comparison
Häftad, 2000
469 kr
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This book provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers; the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. What contribution did economics made to war preparedness and to winning or losing the war? What was the effect of wartime experiences on postwar …
Sveriges Riksbank and the History of Central Banking
Av Rodney Edvinsson, Tor Jacobson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1744 kr
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Written in celebration of its 350th anniversary in 2018, this book details the history of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank, as presented by Klas Fregert. It relates the bank's history to the development of other major central banks around the world. Chapters are written by some of the …
A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States
Av John H. Wood
Häftad, 2008
787 kr
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Central banks in Great Britain and the United States arose early in the financial revolution. The Bank of England was created in 1694 while the first Banks of the United States appeared in 1791-1811 and 1816-36, and were followed by the Independent Treasury, 1846-1914. These institutions, together …
Competition and Monopoly in the Federal Reserve System, 1914-1951
A Microeconomic Approach to Monetary History
Av Mark Toma, Michael D. Bordo m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
754 kr
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Competition among central banks in a monetary union is thought to result in an over issue problem, which has its roots in the view that moneys produced by competitive central banks are perfect substitutes for each other. In the conventional set-up over issue can be overcome by granting a central …
Japanese Banking
A History, 1859-1959
Av Norio Tamaki, Michael D. Bordo m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
586 kr
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How did the Japanese achieve their unrivalled position in world banking? This book, first published in 1995, provides a full account in English of the banking industry in Japan for the century following the opening of the country to the outside world in 1859. Professor Tamaki begins by considering …
The Gold Standard and Related Regimes
Collected Essays
Av Michael D. Bordo, Michael D. Bordo m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
905 kr
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This book contains a collection of Michael D. Bordo's essays, written singly and with colleagues, on the classical gold standard and related regimes based directly or indirectly on gold convertibility. The gold standard (and its variants) was the basis for both international and domestic monetary …
A Monetary History of Italy
Av Michele Fratianni, Franco Spinelli
Häftad, 2005
574 kr
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This volume deals with the monetary history of Italy from its independence in 1861 to 1992. It provides the first complete analysis of a country which has experienced diverse and often dramatic monetary conditions. The authors interpret Italian monetary history through the looking glass of a model …
Banking Panics of the Gilded Age
Av Elmus Wicker, Michael D. Bordo
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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This was the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century. The author has constructed estimates of bank closures and their incidence in each of the five separate banking disturbances. The book takes a novel approach by reconstructing the course of banking panics in the …
Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World
Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries
Av Michael D. Bordo, Roberto Cortés-Conde
Häftad, 2006
821 kr
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This book contains a collection of essays comparing the evolution of the fiscal and monetary regimes of the Old World colonial powers - England, France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands - from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries with the experiences of several of their former colonies in …
Bimetallism
An Economic and Historical Analysis
Av Angela Redish, Michael D. Bordo m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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This book, first published in 2000, presents a history of Western monetary systems and explains why bimetallism was preferred to a gold standard before 1800. Professor Redish argues that the technological ability to issue fiduciary monies, and a commitment mechanism to prevent opportunistic …
The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931
Av Aurel Schubert, Michael D. Bordo m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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Austria played a prominent role in the worldwide events of 1931 as the largest bank in Central and Eastern Europe, the Viennese Credit-Anstalt, collapsed and led Europe into a financial panic that spread to other parts of the world. The events in Austria were pivotal to the economic developments of …
Monetary Regimes in Transition
Av Michael D. Bordo, Forrest Capie m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
687 kr
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This important contribution to comparative economic history examines different countries' experiences with different monetary regimes, laying particular emphasis on how the regimes fared when placed under stress such as wars or other changes in the economic environment. Covering the experience of …
Europe's Postwar Recovery
Häftad, 2007
687 kr
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Western Europe's recovery from World War II was nothing short of miraculous. From the chaos of the war and the crisis of 1947, Europe moved directly to the most rapid quarter-century of economic growth in her history. The contributors to this volume seek to identify the sources of this singularly …
The Changing Face of Central Banking
Evolutionary Trends since World War II
Av Pierre L. Siklos, Michael D. Bordo m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
935 kr
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Central banks have emerged as the key players in national and international policy making. This book explores their evolution since World War II in 20 industrial countries. The study considers the mix of economic, political and institutional forces that have affected central bank behaviour and its …
Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points
Exchange Rates, Parity and Market Behavior
Häftad, 2007
905 kr
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Officer begins this book with a historical perspective of the monetary standards of the United States and Britain. He then develops data on exchange rates, mint parity and gold points, with which he investigates three important features of Anglo-American monetary history. First, the integration of …
Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930-1973
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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This book covers the history of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the first-born among the international economic institutions, from its founding in Basel in 1930 to the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1973. The first chapters explore the foundation of the BIS, its role in the …
Fixed Ideas of Money
Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe
Inbunden, 2010
1887 kr
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Most European countries are rather small, yet we know little about their monetary history. This book analyses for the first time the experience of seven small states (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland) during the last hundred years, starting with the …
Britain in the International Economy, 1870-1939
Av S. N. Broadberry, N. F. R. Crafts
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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During the 1950s and 1960s, research on the prewar British economy was influenced strongly by ideas from Keynesian macroeconomics. It is important to reexamine this period of history, asking to what extent the Keynesian vision offers useful insights into advances in time series analysis as well as …
Deflation
Current and Historical Perspectives
Av Richard C. K. Burdekin, Pierre L. Siklos
Häftad, 2010
636 kr
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This book was originally published in 2004. Fears of deflation seemed nothing more than a relic of the Great Depression. However, beginning in the 1990s, persistently falling consumer prices have emerged in Japan, China and elsewhere. Deflation is also a distinct possibility in some of the major …
The Past and Future of Central Bank Cooperation
Av Claudio Borio, Gianni Toniolo m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
623 kr
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This book explores the past and future of central bank cooperation. In today's global economy, the cooperation between central banks is a key element in maintaining or restoring monetary and financial stability, thereby ensuring a smooth functioning of the international financial system. In this …
The Bank of England
1950s to 1979
Inbunden, 2010
2667 kr
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This history of the Bank of England takes its story from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. This period probably saw the peak of the Bank's influence and prestige, as it dominated the financial landscape. One of the Bank's central functions was to manage the exchange rate. It was also responsible …
The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931
Av Aurel Schubert, Michael D. Bordo m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1668 kr
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Austria played a prominent role in the worldwide events of 1931 as the largest bank in Central and Eastern Europe, the Viennese Credit-Anstalt, collapsed and led Europe into a financial panic that spread to other parts of the world. The events in Austria were pivotal to the economic developments of …
The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1924-1933
Inbunden, 1991
1073 kr
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Today, most scholars agree that mismanaged monetary policy contributed to the length and severity of the Great Depression in the USA. There is little agreement, however, about the causes of the Federal Reserve's mistakes. This book examines the policy strategy developed by the Federal Reserve …
Managing the Franc Poincaré
Economic Understanding and Political Constraint in French Monetary Policy, 1928-1936
Inbunden, 1991
2063 kr
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Defence of the franc Poincaré dominated French economic policy during the Depression. While most countries took their currencies off gold to permit a wider range of domestic policies to foster recovery, in France policy makers resolved to preserve the gold parity of the franc by balancing the …
Finance Capitalism and Germany's Rise to Industrial Power
Häftad, 2011
838 kr
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Based on a wide array of data collected by the author, this book uses clear theoretically motivated economic analysis to explain the structure, performance, and influence of universal banks and securities markets on firms during industrialisation. The German universal banks played a significant but …
Canada and the Gold Standard
Balance of Payments Adjustment under Fixed Exchange Rates, 1871-1913
Av Trevor J. O. Dick, John E. Floyd
Inbunden, 1992
1610 kr
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In this re-examination of Canada's balance-of-payments experience under the gold standard, the authors develop and empirically test a new portfolio approach to the mechanism of balance-of-payments adjustment. This adjustment mechanism responded to massive inflows of foreign capital during a …
Britain in the International Economy, 1870-1939
Av S. N. Broadberry, N. F. R. Crafts
Inbunden, 1992
2063 kr
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During the 1950s and 1960s, research on the prewar British economy was influenced strongly by ideas from Keynesian macroeconomics. It is important to reexamine this period of history, asking to what extent the Keynesian vision offers useful insights into advances in time series analysis as well as …
Monetary Regimes in Transition
Av Michael D. Bordo, Forrest Capie
Inbunden, 1993
1682 kr
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This important contribution to comparative economic history examines different countries' experiences with different monetary regimes, laying particular emphasis on how the regimes fared when placed under stress such as wars or other changes in the economic environment. Covering the experience of …
A Monetary History of Italy
Av Michele Fratianni, Franco Spinelli
Inbunden, 1997
2214 kr
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This volume deals with the monetary history of Italy from its independence in 1861 to 1992. It provides the first complete analysis of a country which has experienced diverse and often dramatic monetary conditions. The authors interpret Italian monetary history through the looking glass of a model …
Elusive Stability
Essays in the History of International Finance, 1919-1939
Av Barry Eichengreen, Michael D. Bordo m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
594 kr
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This volume provides a new interpretation of the operation and macroeconomic repercussions of the international monetary system during the interwar years. Each of the eleven essays is explicitly concerned with the role of exchange rates in macroeconomic fluctuations from the American and European …
