Catherine R. Schenk

The Decline of Sterling

Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945-1992

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges traditional explanations of the prolonged demise of sterling as an international currency after World War II.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 817g
• ISBN-13: 9780521876971
• ISBN-10: 0521876974
• Artikelnr.: 28526385

Autorenporträt

Catherine R. Schenk is Professor of International Economic History at the University of Glasgow. She has held academic posts in the UK, New Zealand and Malaysia and has been a visiting researcher at the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research and the International Monetary Fund. Her previous books include Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre (2001) and Britain and the Sterling Area (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction and outline of the book
Part I. Reconstructing the International Monetary System 1945-59: 2. The post-war international monetary system 1945-50
3. Return to convertibility 1950-9
Part II. Accelerating the Retreat: Sterling in the 1960s: 4. Sterling and European integration
5. The sterling devaluation 1967: relations with the USA and the IMF
6. Sterling and the City
7. Multilateral negotiations: sterling and the reform of the international monetary system
8. The sterling agreements of 1968
Part III. Sterling's Final Retreat 1970-92: 9. Sterling and the end of Bretton Woods
10. Years of crisis 1973-9
11. The aftermath 1980-92
12. Summary and conclusions
Index.