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1633416 |
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960403s1996 njua b 001 0 eng c |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
96008084 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
069102880X (alk. paper) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
FUE |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HG3881 |
| Item number |
.E347 1996 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
332.042 |
| Edition number |
20 |
| Item number |
E.B.G |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Eichengreen, Barry J., |
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18041 |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Globalizing Capital : |
| Remainder of title |
a history of the international monetary system / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Barry Eichengreen. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
History of the international monetary system |
| 264 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Princeton, N.J. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Princeton University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
[1996] |
| 264 #4 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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©1996 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 223 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
| Content type code |
txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-216) and index. |
| 505 #0 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
1. Introduction --<br/>2. The gold standard --<br/>3. Interwar instability --<br/>4. The Bretton Woods System --<br/>5. After Bretton Woods --<br/>6. A brave new monetary world --<br/>7. A decade of crises --<br/>8. Conclusion. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The importance of the International Monetary System is evident in the daily news stories about fluctuating currencies and in dramatic events, such as the recent reversals in the Mexican economy. It has become increasingly apparent that one cannot understand the international economy without knowing how its monetary system operates.<br/>The importance of the international monetary system is clearly evident in daily news stories about fluctuating currencies and in dramatic events such as the recent reversals in the Mexican economy. It has become increasingly apparent that one cannot understand the international economy without knowing how its monetary system operates. Now Barry Eichengreen presents a brief, lucid book that tells the story of the international financial system over the past 150 years. "Globalizing Capital" is intended not only for economists but also for a general audience of historians, political scientists, professionals in government and business, and anyone with a broad interest in international economic and political relations. Eichengreen's work demonstrates that insights into the international monetary system and effective principles for governing it can result only if it is seen a historical phenomenon extending from the gold standard period to interwar instability, then to Bretton Woods, and finally to the post-1973 period of fluctuating currencies.Eichengreen analyzes the shift from pegged to floating exchange rates in the 1970s and ascribes that change to the growing capital mobility that has made pegged rates difficult to maintain. However, he shows that capital mobility was also high prior to World War I, yet this did not prevent the maintenance of fixed exchange rates. What was critical for the successful maintenance of fixed exchange rates during that period was the fact that governments were relatively insulated from democratic politics and thus from pressure to trade off exchange rate stability for other goals, such as the reduction of unemployment. Today pegging exchange rates would require very radical reforms of a sort that governments are understandably reluctant to embrace. The implication seems undeniable: floating rates are here to stay. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
International finance |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
18042 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Gold standard |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
18043 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |