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International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy

By Marc Flandreau , Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich , Harold James

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0521819954, 9780521819954
Open Library ID
OL22536542M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3158956 bytes)
Series
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Pages
290\290
Topic
History
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

The essays in this book examine the long history of the international financial system in terms of the current debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. In the interwar years, attempts (largely unsuccessful) at designing a genuine international trade and monetary system were made at the same time (coincidentally) that the system collapsed. In the post-1945 era, the intended design effort was infinitely more successful. The development of large international capital markets since the 1960s, however, increasingly frustrated attempts at international control.

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