Central Banks and Gold : : How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World /

Central Banks and Gold : : How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World / / Mark Metzler, Simon James Bytheway.

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Bytheway, Simon James,
Metzler, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Money
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.) :; 3 halftones, 10 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Conventions
  • Introduction: Bases of Credit
  • 1. The Beginnings of Central Bank Cooperation: Tokyo and London, 1895-1914
  • 2. World War and Globalization
  • 3. Japan Emerges as an International Creditor, 1915-1918
  • 4. Postwar Alignment
  • 5. Wall Street Discovers Japan, Spring 1920
  • 6. Putting the Program into Action, 1920-1928
  • 7. Making a Market: London and Gold in the 1920s
  • 8. The Rush for Gold
  • Conclusion: Private Networks and the Public Interest
  • Appendix: Reference Material
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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