A history of sterling over half a century, using new archives, data and unseen photographs. This book follows the Bank currency dealers, the very people who tried to manage and manipulate the pound, to show how the Bank of England defended the pound and managed foreign exchange.
A history of sterling over half a century, using new archives, data and unseen photographs. This book follows the Bank currency dealers, the very people who tried to manage and manipulate the pound, to show how the Bank of England defended the pound and managed foreign exchange.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alain Naef is a research economist at the Banque de France working on the international monetary system.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Sterling's postwar role and lessons from the 1947 convertibility crisis 2. The 1949 devaluation: readjusting the postwar parities 3. The reopening of the London foreign exchange market: Sterling's window on the world. 4. The bank on the market 5. The reopening of the London gold market in 1954: sealing the fate of sterling and the international system 6. 1958 convertibility and its consequences. 7. The gold pool 8. Cooperation and the fed swap network 9. The 1964-7 currency crisis 10. The 1967 devaluation and the fall of the gold pool 11. The consequences of the devaluation: ongoing crisis and window dressing at the bank of England 12. Britain, Nixon and the end of Bretton woods 13. Was the IMF crisis 'natural' or 'manmade' 14. Britain's last currency crisis Conclusion Data availability Bibliography.
Introduction 1. Sterling's postwar role and lessons from the 1947 convertibility crisis 2. The 1949 devaluation: readjusting the postwar parities 3. The reopening of the London foreign exchange market: Sterling's window on the world. 4. The bank on the market 5. The reopening of the London gold market in 1954: sealing the fate of sterling and the international system 6. 1958 convertibility and its consequences. 7. The gold pool 8. Cooperation and the fed swap network 9. The 1964-7 currency crisis 10. The 1967 devaluation and the fall of the gold pool 11. The consequences of the devaluation: ongoing crisis and window dressing at the bank of England 12. Britain, Nixon and the end of Bretton woods 13. Was the IMF crisis 'natural' or 'manmade' 14. Britain's last currency crisis Conclusion Data availability Bibliography.
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