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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Barry Eichengreen (, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.248kg ISBN: 9780199257447ISBN 10: 0199257442 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 08 August 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Crisis Prevention 3: Crisis Management 4: Lessons of Recent Experience 5: The Way Forward Appendix: A Chronology of Official InitiativesReviewsThis book makes a valuable addition to the understanding of the numerous attempts and proposals for reforming the international financial system. International Affairs Eichengreen shows an unerring ability to get right to the heart of the matter. For those who don't have the time or inclination to plough through endless heavy-going research papers, this book is to be heartily recommended. Central Banking Journal Barry Eichengreen's slim new volume summarises the current debate on financial crises, and then takes it one stage further ... neatly and sensibly argued ... an insightful insider's analysis ... It will bring the reader up to speed on the topic in record time: everything you need to know is tidily and concisely expressed in this refreshingly accessible book, which caters for the practitioner and the novice alike. Central Banking Journal `Review from other book by this author It looks to me to be quite a tour de force, by the outstanding contemporary scholar of the 20th century history of the international monetary system. ' John Williamson, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics `Eichengreen's] book provides new and insightful analyses of how the gold standard worked and its role in the economic crisis of the interwar years. ' David Hale, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Kemper Financial Services Corporation `Anyone tempted to make historical parallels between the EMS and the gold standard should read Barry Eichengreen's scholarl account ... his book is written with a clarity that allows one to identify both elements of the gold standard that were unique and those that are common to any regime of fixed exchange rates. ' Times Literary Supplement, 11/03/1993 `It is superb monetary history ... The great strength of Eichengreen's historical analysis is his enormously wide knowledge of, and sympathy for, economic and political conditions in all the major countries concerned ... a marvelous book. It is, in addition, beautifully written, and fully accessible to general readers (no mathematics, and lots of contemporary cartoons). A real pleasure to read, the work of a master economic historian.' International Journal of Finance and Economics, 07/03/1996 `Review from other book by this author It looks to me to be quite a tour de force, by the outstanding contemporary scholar of the 20th century history of the international monetary system. ' John Williamson, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics `Eichengreen's] book provides new and insightful analyses of how the gold standard worked and its role in the economic crisis of the interwar years. ' David Hale, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Kemper Financial Services Corporation `Anyone tempted to make historical parallels between the EMS and the gold standard should read Barry Eichengreen's scholarl account ... his book is written with a clarity that allows one to identify both elements of the gold standard that were unique and those that are common to any regime of fixed exchange rates. ' Times Literary Supplement, 11/03/1993 `It is superb monetary history ... The great strength of Eichengreen's historical analysis is his enormously wide knowledge of, and sympathy for, economic and political conditions in all the major countries concerned ... a marvelous book. It is, in addition, beautifully written, and fully accessible to general readers (no mathematics, and lots of contemporary cartoons). A real pleasure to read, the work of a master economic historian.' International Journal of Finance and Economics, 07/03/1996 This book makes a valuable addition to the understanding of the numerous attempts and proposals for reforming the international financial system. International Affairs Eichengreen shows an unerring ability to get right to the heart of the matter. For those who don't have the time or inclination to plough through endless heavy-going research papers, this book is to be heartily recommended. Central Banking Journal Barry Eichengreen's slim new volume summarises the current debate on financial crises, and then takes it one stage further ... neatly and sensibly argued ... an insightful insider's analysis ... It will bring the reader up to speed on the topic in record time: everything you need to know is tidily and concisely expressed in this refreshingly accessible book, which caters for the practitioner and the novice alike. Central Banking Journal Author InformationBarry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and the Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is also Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). In 1997-8 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. Professor Eichengreen has published widely on the history and current operation of the international monetary and financial system. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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