International Money: Postwar Trends and Theories

by Paul De Grauwe

Book Overview

The period since the Second World war has been an eventful and often disturbing one in the international monetary field. Economic theories have been propounded and modified both to explain these events and to influence future choices made by economic actors.

This history of international monetary relations shows both how theoretical development affected private developments, and how the theories themselves have been judged - and often discarded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019877513X
• ISBN13: 9780198775133
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Worth a spot on your bookshelf

Simply outstanding. Paul De Grauwe writes about issues pertaining to exchange rates regimes with great clarity. Chapter 9 about near-rational behavior is particularly interesting, even if the part on chaos theory is too terse. For those more particularly interested in the economics of monetary unions, I also strongly recommend his book "The economics of monetary integration".