Money on the move : the revolution in international finance since 1980 / Robert Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The international monetary system has changed radically in the last twenty years. Capital, information, goods, and services move around the globe with unprecedented ease. Countries from the former communist bloc have joined the system. Europe is on the verge of monetary union. Financial crises in East Asia and Mexico have rocked the world economy. In this book, Robert Solomon--author of the definitive history of the monetary order between 1945 and 1981--presents the first comprehensive history of these and other aspects of this revolution in international finance. Authoritative, accessible, and elegantly written, the book will be indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand how today's international monetary system works. Solomon begins with the spectacular rise and subsequent decline of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar in the 1980's. He covers the debt crisis of developing countries in the 1980's. He explores the shift from central planning to market economies in many countries in the 1990's and explains the origins, implications, and problems of the move to a single European currency. Solomon examines in detail the striking increase in the mobility of capital--paying particular attention to the costs and benefits for developing countries, and to the role of capital mobility in the Mexican crisis of 1994 and the Asian crisis that began in 1997. In the book's final chapter, Solomon provides an overview of the international monetary system and considers how it might evolve in the future. In this section, he focuses on the key subjects of balance-of-payments adjustments, supply of reserves, and stability. He also evaluates a variety of much-debated policy instruments, including inflation targeting, currency boards, target zones for exchange rates, free-floating exchange rates, the Tobin tax, macroeconomic policy coordination, and special drawings rights. Throughout, Solomon relates developments in the international monetary system to macroeconomic conditions in the countries involved--arguing that it is impossible to understand one without understanding the other. As a clear, thorough, and unusually perceptive account of global finance and monetary economics in the late twentieth century, Money on the Move will be vital reading for economists, policymakers, and general readers.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Acronyms

CHAPTER 1. The Wide-Ranging Dollar, 1980-1990

CHAPTER 2. The Developing-Country Debt Crisis

CHAPTER 3. Economic and Monetary Integration in Europe

CHAPTER 4. Economies in Transition: International Effects

CHAPTER 5. The 1990's: Capital Mobility and Its Effects

CHAPTER 6. The Present and Future of the System

Appendix. CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-199) and index.

ISBN:

9786612964329

9781400822850

1400822858

9781282964327

1282964321

9781400813469

1400813468

OCLC:

845245947