The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy-Making: From the Gold Standard to the Euro

By Steven Kettell

Book Overview

Steven Kettell analyzes the development of exchange rate policymaking from a Marxist perspective. He examines and provides a new means of understanding three key policymaking episodes in Britain - the return to the gold standard in 1925, membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism from 1990-1992 and the possibility of joining the Single European Currency. The alternative means of understanding these policy episodes provides a basis for making wider generalizations about the political economy of exchange rate policymaking.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349514934
• ISBN13: 9781349514939
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"