Monetary Orders : : Ambiguous Economics, Ubiquitous Politics / / ed. by Jonathan Kirshner.

Wherever there is money, there is money politics-a subject demanding ever greater attention at a time when monetary policies lead and the real economy follows. A principal defining characteristic of the contemporary global economy, Jonathan Kirshner contends, is the rise and preeminence of monetary...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 10 graphs, 13 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART 1: MONEY RULES: FOLLOW THE POLITICS
  • 1. The Inescapable Politics of Money
  • 2. Ideology, Power, and the Rise oflndependent Monetary Institutions in Emerging Economies
  • PART 2: SMALL STATES IN WORLD MARKETS
  • 3. The Southern Side of Embedded Liberalism The Politics of Postwar Monetary Policy in the Third World
  • 4. When Do States Abandon Monetary Discretion? Lessons from the Evolution of the CFA Franc Zone
  • 5. National Strategy and National Money Politics and the End of the Ruble Zone, 1991-94
  • 6. The Political Economy of Currency Boards Argentina in Historical and Comparative Perspective
  • PART 3: GREAT POWERS AND MONEY POLITICS
  • 7. China's Exchange Rate Policy in the Mtermath of the Asian Financial Crisis
  • 8. Internationalization of the Yen and the New Politics of Monetary Insulation
  • 9. Ideas, Power, and the Politics of U.S. International Monetary Policy during the 1g6os
  • 10. Franco-German Interests in European Monetary Integration The Search for Autonomy and Acceptance
  • PART 4: THE POLITICS OF UNGOVERNED CAPITAL
  • 11. The Political Power of Financial Ideas Transparency, Risk, and Distribution in Global Finance
  • 12. Explaining Choices about Money Disentangling Power, Ideas, and Conflict
  • References
  • Index