TY - BOOK AU - Coombs,Charles A. TI - The arena of international finance SN - 047101513X AV - HG3881 .C673 U1 - 332.042 PY - 1976/// CY - New York PB - Wiley KW - International finance N1 - "A Wiley-Interscience publication."; Includes index N2 - In a rather informal autobiographical style, the author offers a perspective on the international monetary situation during the years 1960-1975. He deals with a number of critical incidents and provides a most valuable resource, a "hands-on" report. He combines history, memoir and economic analysis to provide a vivid inside view that is probably unique in the literature of central banking. Basically discreet, the book is also very critical of the methods and policies that led to the "unnecessary degradation of the dollar." ER -