The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system....

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system....

The revised edition presents a collection of essays, both sympathetic and critical, on the gold standard. It contains six new essays drawing on the latest research to provide a critical framework for contemporary debates about the gold standard. The articles range from classics by Keynes to more modern pieces....

La crisis en los mercados emergentes, que comenzo en Asia durante el verano de 1997 y que se ha convertido en un fenomeno global, produjo una marcada insatisfaccion con el sistema monetario y financiero mundial....

This is a new edition of Sterling in Decline with a new introduction by Barry Eichengreen. The book traces the decline of sterling from the world\'s pre-eminent currency alongside the dollar\'s rise to prominence. There are parallels to be drawn with the euro\'s emergence as a full-fledged competitor to the dollar for international currency status....

The book integrates political and economic analysis of Europe\'s Economic and Monetary Union in a format accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. As Europe moves toward economic integration, the problems underlying the monetary unification point to the importance of resolving political differences....

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....

Book DescriptionThe 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 policyaspects of the effects, both positive and negative, of capital flows....

For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America\'s currency but the world\'s. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States....

The Asian financial crisis and the global economic turmoil that followed it have highlighted the need to avert financial crises and resolve them quickly if they do occur....

The book\'s American and European authors consider four aspects of the transatlantic economic relationship and its future. Specifically, will conflict or cooperation dominate in the coming years?...

The need to limit IMF financial rescues is a theme of the literature on how to make the world a safer financial place. Those who propose to simply prohibit IMF rescues assume that it is politically feasible for the Fund to stand aside when a crisis erupts....

As European integration has deepened and become more invasive, the tension between the authority of the European Union and the autonomy of member states has increased, while dissatisfaction with the political institutions of the European Union has increased dramatically....

\"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 judgementof political decision process by an economic historian....