Since the Second World War, the US dollar has been the world's sole international reserve currency, giving it, in the words of one critic, 'exorbitant privilege'. But in the wake of the worldwide fina...
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Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery,...
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Eichengreen and Lindert bring together original studies that assess the historical record to see what lessons can be learned for resolving today's crisis. 24...
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This book, first published as an eBook shortly after the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008, outlines the fears of some of the world's leading economists that the unfolding financial market meltdown had ...
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This book, first published as an eBook to coincide with the November 2008 G20 meeting in Washington, provides the views of some of the world's leading economists on what world leaders needed to do to ...
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The 13th Geneva Report on the World Economy is devoted to fiscal policy reforms in the USA, Europe and Japan. It offers a common political-economy framework to diagnose the need for fiscal consolidati...
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16 black & white tables...
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In this book leading economists and economic historians look at the history of the international monetary system, in particular the workings of the gold standard, to examine the implications for inter...
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