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The anatomy of an international monetary regime : the classical gold standard, 1880-1914 / Giulio M. Gallarotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gallarotti, Giulio M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold standard--History.
- Gold standard.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 347 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Contents:
- 2 The Classical Gold Standard as an International Monetary Regime 16
- General Overview of the Gold Standard 18
- The Component Parts: The Institutional Character of the Gold Standard 27
- Liquidity and Reserves 27
- Adjustment 34
- Exchange Rates 42
- Capital Controls 45
- Confidence 49
- Institutional Synthesis of the Gold Standard 54
- 3 Cooperation under the Gold Standard 58
- Cooperation among National Governments under the Gold Standard 60
- The Conference of 1867 62
- The Conference of 1878 66
- The Conference of 1881 72
- The Conference of 1892 76
- Central Bank Cooperation under the Gold Standard 78
- 4 British Hegemony under the Gold Standard 86
- The Goals of the British State 88
- The Principal-Agent Link: The Bank of England as an Agent of British Hegemony 93
- Great Britain and the International Monetary Conferences of 1867, '78, '81, '92 97
- 5 Hegemony and the Bank of England 111
- Indirect Hegemony: The Bank of England and Central Banking in Great Britain 113
- Acknowledging Public Responsibility 114
- Managing the British Monetary System 119
- Direct Hegemony: The Bank of England as an International Central Bank 131
- Acknowledging Public Responsibility 131
- International Reserve Management and Lender of Last Resort 133
- Managing the International Monetary System 135
- Managing International Crises 139
- 6 The Origin of the Gold Standard 141
- The Structural Foundations of the Gold Standard 143
- The Ideology of Gold 143
- Industrialization and Economic Development 147
- The Politics of Gold 151
- The Proximate Foundations of the Gold Standard: Chain Gangs and Regime Transformation 160
- The 1860s: A Decade of Growing Nervousness 160
- The Monetary Chain Gang 165
- The 1870s 169
- The Permissive Foundations of the Gold Standard 175
- 7 The Stability of the Gold Standard 181
- Tier 1 The Proximate Foundations of Adjustment 185
- The Stable Supersystem of International Politics 185
- The Stable Supersystem of International Economics 189
- The Gold Standard and Core Nations 193
- Synchronous Macroeconomies 200
- Stabilizing Expectations 204
- Tier 2 The Normative Foundations of Adjustment 207
- 8 The Gold Standard and Regime Theory 218
- Hegemonic Regimes 219
- Cooperative Regimes 224
- Diffuse Regimes 227
- Data 237
- Discount Rates of Central Banks 237
- World Price Indices 237
- British Series 237
- Estimation Techniques 238
- Equations 241
- Granger Causality Tests 262
- Central Bank Discount Rates 263
- World Price Indices and British Series 263
- Bank of England Discount Rate and British Series 264
- Bank of England Reserves and British Series 265.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195089901
- OCLC:
- 30511110
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