Maria Cristina Marcuzzo / L.H. Officer (eds.)

Monetary Standards and Exchange Rates

Herausgeber: Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina; Rosselli, Annalisa; Officer, Lawrence H.

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Produktbeschreibung

In this volume an international team of distinguished monetary historians examine the historical experience of exchange rate behaviour under different monetary regimes. The main focus is on metallic standards and fixed exchange rates, such as the gold standard. With its combination of thematic overviews and case studies of key countries and periods, this book greatly enhances our understanding of past monetary systems. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One evaluates the various monetary systems. The performance of metallic regimes is compared with the other monetary systems of human history. Using criteria such as growth, inflation and general economic stability. Part Two is concerned with the detailed behaviour of exchange rates under historical metallic regimes. Much attention is paid to the bimetallic standard of both gold and silver. Part Three examines the different behaviour of metallic standards in the centre countries and at the periphery. This book will be welcomed primarily by economic historians and general historians with an interest in monetary history, and also by scholars of macroeconomics and international economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 643g
• ISBN-13: 9780415142977
• ISBN-10: 0415142970
• Artikelnr.: 21630729

Autorenporträt

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. A specialist in classical monetary theory and in the Cambridge School of economics, she is the co-author (with A. Rosselli) of Ricardo and the Gold Standard and co-editor of The Economics of Joan Robinson. She has published articles in Economica, Revue d'Economie Politique, Cambridge Journal of Economics and Review of Political Economy. Lawrence H. Officer is Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Research Consultant at the Bank of Canada, and Consultant at the International Monetary Fund. His academic specialities are monetary history and international economics, and his most recent book is Between the Dollar- Sterling Gold Points: Exchange Rates, Parity and Market Behaviour. Annalisa Rosselli is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. She graduated in mathematics and studied at the London School of Economics. Her publications center on the history of economic thought and on economic history. She is the co-author (with M.C. Marcuzzo) of Ricardo and the Gold Standard.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION Part I Monetary systems 1 EXCHANGE-RATE SYSTEMS AND ECONOMIC
GROWTH 2 TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY STANDARD? 3 THE GOLD STANDARD
Part II Metallic standards 4 METALLIC STANDARDS AND REAL EXCHANGE RATES 5
"BIMETALLIC SNAKE" AND MONETARY REGIMES: THE STABILITY OF THE EXCHANGE RATE
BETWEEN LONDON AND PARIS FROM 1796 TO 1873 6 AS GOOD AS GOLD? BIMETALLISM
IN EQUILIBRIUM, 1850-70 7 THE ANCIEN RÉGIME AND THE CLASSICS:
MULTIMETALLISM, TABULAR STANDARDS AND THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF MONEY Part
III Exchange-rate behavior under the gold standard 8 INTEGRATION IN THE
AMERICAN FOREIGN[1]EXCHANGE MARKET, 1791-1931 9 ITALY, THE FISCAL-DOMINANCE
MODEL, AND THE GOLD-STANDARD AGE 10 TERMS-OF-TRADE VARIABILITY AND
ADHERENCE TO THE GOLD STANDARD: THE CASES OF PORTUGAL AND SPAIN