Elusive Stability
Essays in the History of International Finance, 1919–1939
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Part of Studies in Macroeconomic History
- Author: Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
- Date Published: April 1993
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521448475
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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 perspective. The final essay examines the interwar experience from a long-term perspective.
Read more- This volume provides a new interpretation of the operation of the international monetary system during the interwar years and its contribution to the global economic breakdown of the 1930s
- Successful hardback edition (1990), widely reviewed
- Central argument differs from conventional interpretations in that it does not see the gold standard as a panacea for international monetary difficulties
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' … new, impressive, and illuminating collection of essays from Professor Eichengreen … His method of argument is rigorous and detached; and the algebra is happily not allowed to overwhelm the sense.' Douglas Jay, Financial Times
See more reviews'This elegant and useful book belongs on the shelf of all serious students of twentieth-century monetary and financial history.' Journal of Interdisciplinary History
'This book is well written … No other modern work covers this subject. A student with some knowledge of international finance could follow the argument even without the mathematical and statistical background required to evaluate the models that summarize the basic argument of each chapter.' Choice
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- Date Published: April 1993
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521448475
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- contains: 31 b/w illus. 34 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of figures
List of charts
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Real exchange rate behavior under alternative international monetary regimes
3. Understanding 1921–27: inflation and economic recovery in the 1920s
4. Bank rate policy under the interwar gold standard with Mark W. Watson and Richard S. Grossman
5. The Bank of France and the sterilization of gold, 1926–1932
6. International policy coordination in historical perspective: a view from the interwar years
7. The economic consequences of the Franc Poincaré with Charles Wyplosz
8. Sterling and the tariff, 1929–32
9. Exchange rates and economic recovery in the 1930s with Jeffrey Sachs
10. The gold-exchange standard and the Great Depression
11. Hegemonic stability theories of the international monetary system
Notes
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