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International Monetary Cooperation since Bretton Woods /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1996.Description: xvi, 742 p. :illISBN:
  • 019510448X (hardcover : acidfree paper)
  • 9780195104486
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.042  JAM
LOC classification:
  • HG3881 .J33 1996
Online resources: Summary: This book is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also analyses the responses of the world economic powers to the Depression and how new monetary policies set the stage for the watershed post-World War II system established at Bretton Woods. It offers new theories of what effect the Great Depression had on the collapse of the world monetary system, and what effect the collapse had on deepening and prolonging the Depression, by exploring the link between global economic crisis and the the gold standard (the framework for international monetary affairs until 1931). The events described had a profound effect upon twentieth-century history: the Depression abetted the rise of Hitler and the demise of the gold standard is a historical cause of inflation
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Monograph & others Monograph & others CBN HQ Library General Stacks Non-fiction 332.042 JAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31008100083522
Monograph & others Monograph & others CBN LAGOS LAISON OFFICE LIBRARY General Stacks 332.042 JAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c. 1 Available 31008100767983

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-720).

This book is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also analyses the responses of the world economic powers to the Depression and how new monetary policies set the stage for the watershed post-World War II system established at Bretton Woods. It offers new theories of what effect the Great Depression had on the collapse of the world monetary system, and what effect the collapse had on deepening and prolonging the Depression, by exploring the link between global economic crisis and the the gold standard (the framework for international monetary affairs until 1931). The events described had a profound effect upon twentieth-century history: the Depression abetted the rise of Hitler and the demise of the gold standard is a historical cause of inflation

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