Author: Barry Eichengreen
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: crises, flows, capital
Number of Pages: 385
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0262550598
ISBN-13: 9780262550598

The implications of capital mobility for growth and stability are some of the most contentious and least understood contemporary issues in economics. In this book, Barry Eichengreen discusses historical, theoretical, empirical, and policy aspects of the effects, both positive and negative, of capital flows. He focuses on the connections between capital flows and crises as well as on those between capital flows and growth. Eichengreen argues that international financial liberalization, like other forms of economic liberalization, can positively affect the efficiency of resource allocation an

Author: Barry Eichengreen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: history, studies, macroeconomic, finance, international, essays, elusive, stability
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1993-02-26
List price: $37.99
ISBN-10: 0521448476
ISBN-13: 9780521448475

This volume provides a new interpretation of the operation and macroeconomic repercussions of the international monetary system during the interwar years. Each of the eleven essays is explicitly concerned with the role of exchange rates in macroeconomic fluctuations from the American and European perspective. The final essay examines interwar experience from a long-run perspective.

Author: Barry Eichengreen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: history, western, world, economic, princeton, economy, coordinated, capitalism, european
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691138486
ISBN-13: 9780691138480

In 1945, many Europeans still heated with coal, cooled their food with ice, and lacked indoor plumbing. Today, things could hardly be more different. Over the second half of the twentieth century, the average European’s buying power tripled, while working hours fell by a third. The European Economy since 1945 is a broad, accessible, forthright account of the extraordinary development of Europe’s economy since the end of World War II. Barry Eichengreen argues that the continent’s history has been critical to its economic performance, and that it will continue to be so going fo

Author: Barry Eichengreen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: term, factors, economic, development, series, nber, fetters, gold, standard, depression, golden
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1996-02-08
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0195101138
ISBN-13: 9780195101133

Golden Fetters offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave rise to the global crisis of the 1930s. He demonstrates that the gold standard fundamentally constrained the economic policies that were pursued and that it was largely responsible for creating

Author: Barry Eichengreen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: crises, financial
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-11-07
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0199257442
ISBN-13: 9780199257447

Financial Crises: And What To Do About Them, provides a critical and concise assessment of how to more effectively manage financial crises in emerging markets and economies. Written by an expert in the financial sector, he gives realistic and sound advise on how to create and maintain the financial system of the world. This book gives complete theories of why financial crises still exist at the level it does. It discusses the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and their role in helping (and sometimes hurting) the situation. Finally, the author presents the theory of restructuring "friendly" p

Author: Barry Eichengreen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: system, second, monetary, international, capital, history, globalizing
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691139377
ISBN-13: 9780691139371

First published more than a decade ago, Globalizing Capital remains an indispensable part of the economic literature today. Written by renowned economist Barry Eichengreen, this classic book emphasizes the importance of the international monetary system for understanding the international economy. Brief and lucid, Globalizing Capital is intended not only for economists, but also a general audience of historians, political scientists, professionals in government and business, and anyone with a broad interest in international relations. Eichengreen demonstrates that the international monetary sy

Author: Barry Eichengreen
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: practice, analysis, theory, unification, monetary, european
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 1997-11-14
List price: $62.00
ISBN-10: 0262050544
ISBN-13: 9780262050548

"Barry Eichengreen has over the past decade raised the standard of the debate on Europe’s monetary unification in a number of articles collected in this volume. He combines the skills of an econometrician with the accurate analysis and critical judgement of political decision process by an economic historian. By using the US experience of its currency union as a benchmark he has put challenging questions to European policy makers." -- Niels Thygesen, University of Copenhagen The process of European monetary unification (EMU) is approaching a critical juncture. At the beginning