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Fixed Ideas of Money
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Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521112710
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2010
Seiten:
414
Autor:
Tobias Straumann
Gewicht:
822 g
Format:
235x157x29 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Tobias Straumann is Lecturer in the History Department of the University of Zurich. He studied at the Universities of Bielefeld and Zurich and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. After a career in economic journalism, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and lecturer at the University of Lausanne. Dr Straumann has worked in the fields of Swiss economic history and European financial and monetary history. He has published articles in the Journal of Contemporary History, the European Review of Economic History, and the Historische Zeitschrift.
This book analyses how seven small European countries dealt with major financial crises in the last hundred years.
Introduction; Part I. The Interwar Years: 1. Early divergence; 2. The return to prewar parity; 3. Fear of experiments; 4. The dissolution of the gold bloc; Part II. After Bretton Woods: 5. Fixed vs. floating; 6. Hard and soft pegs; 7. The Swiss exception; 8. Floating in the north; Conclusion.