TY - BOOK AU - Hellmann,Rainer TI - Gold, the dollar, and the European currency systems: the seven year monetary war SN - 0030416116 : AV - HG3881 .H42413 U1 - 332.4'5'094 PY - 1979/// CY - New York PB - Praeger Publishers KW - International finance KW - Foreign exchange rates KW - Money KW - Foreign exchange KW - Europe--European Economic Community countries N1 - Translation of Dollar, Gold und Schlange; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The object of this book is to give a picture of a seven-year war for the reform of the international monetary system, fought by industrial countries in the bewildered view of the economically less developed spectators. The intention of this book is to trace the European efforts to realize monetary unification first by the snake and today by a new monetary system in a period of the greatest turmoil in the monetary order ER -