Table of Contents: Comparative political economy :

Main Author:	Kindleberger, Charles Poor, 1910-2003.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Subjects:	Finance Foreign exchange International trade Economic policy Finances > Cas, Études de. Change Commerce international > Cas, Études de. Politique économique > Cas, Études de. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference. Finance. Foreign exchange. International trade. Economic policy. Vergelijkende economie. Economische politiek. Europa (geografie) Verenigde Staten.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
Foreign Exchange
2. Competitive Currency Depreciation between Denmark and New Zealand
3. The Case for Fixed Exchange Rates, 1969
International Trade
4. Group Behavior and International Trade
5. The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820-1875
Economic Growth
6. Germany's Overtaking of England, 1806-1914
7. The Aging Economy
8. Standards as Public, Collective, and Private Goods
Finance
9. The Dollar and World Liquidity: A Minority View / Charles P. Kindleberger, Emile Despres and Walter S. Salant
10. Measuring Equilibrium in the Balance of Payments
11. The Formation of Financial Centers
12. Anatomy of a Typical Crisis
13. Gresham's Law
14. British Financial Reconstruction, 1815-1822 and 1918-1925
15. Intermediation, Disintermediation, and Direct Trading
Political Economy
16. The Politics of International Money and World Language
17. The International Monetary Politics of a Near-Great Power: Two French Episodes, 1926-1936 and 1960-1970
18. An Explanation of the 1929 Depression
19. Economic Responsibility
20. International Public Goods without International Government
21. Rules vs Men: Lessons from a Century of Monetary Policy.