Currency Convertibility: The Gold Standard and Beyond (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415140579 ISBN 13: 9780415140577

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

The spread of currency convertibility is one of the most dramatic trends of the late twentieth century. It reflects the desire of policymakers to integrate their economies into the global trading system and to attract financial capital and direct investment from abroad. In this book a team of leading international economists and economic historians look at parallel situations in the history of the international monetary system, focusing in particular on the gold standard. The concluding chapter uses a case study of modern Portugal to draw out implications for modern international monetary relations in Europe and for the rest of the world.

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About the Author

Jorge Braga de Macedo is Associate Professor of Economics at the New University of Lisbon
Barry Eichengreen is John L. Simpson Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley
Jaime Reis is in the Department of History at the European University Institute in Florence

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415140579
• ISBN 13: 9780415140577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Eichengreen Barry, Reis Jaime, De Macedo Jorge Braga