Globalizing Capital by Eichengreen, Barry J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title page Copyright Page Contents Preface Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The Gold Standard

Prehistory The Dilemmas of Bimetallism The Lure of Bimetallism The Advent of the Gold Standard Shades of Gold How the Gold Standard Worked The Gold Standard as a Historically Specific Institution International Solidarity The Gold Standard and the Lender of Last Resort Instability at the Periphery The Stability of the System

Chapter Three: Interwar Instability

Chronology Experience with Floating: The Controversial Case of the Franc Reconstructing the Gold Standard The New Gold Standard Problems of the New Gold Standard The Pattern of International Payments Responses to the Great Depression Banking Crises and Their Management Disintegration of the Gold Standard Sterling’s Crisis The Dollar Follows Managed Floating Conclusions

Chapter Four: The Bretton Woods System

Wartime Planning and Its Consequences The Sterling Crisis and the Realignment of European Currencies The European Payments Union Payments Problems and Selective Controls Convertibility: Problems and Progress Special Drawing Rights Declining Controls and Rising Rigidity The Battle for Sterling The Crisis of the Dollar The Lessons of Bretton Woods

Chapter Five: After Bretton Woods

Floating Exchange Rates in the 1970s Floating Exchange Rates in the 1980s The Snake The European Monetary System Renewed Impetus for Integration Europe’s Crisis Understanding the Crisis The Experience of Developing Countries Conclusions

Chapter Six: A Brave New Monetary World

The Asian Crisis Emerging Instability Global Imbalances The Euro International Currency Competition

Chapter Seven: Conclusion Glossary References Index