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Comparative Political Economy A Retrospective

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ISBN-10: 0262112469

ISBN-13: 9780262112468

Edition: 2000

Authors: Charles P. Kindleberger

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The essays collected here from the author's long career reflect his shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth and economic history, especially financial history.
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Book details

List price: $13.75
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/23/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 508
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Charles P. Kindleberger is Ford International Professor of Economics Emeritus, MIT and Visiting Professor, Brandeis University.

Introduction
Foreign Exchange
Competitive Currency Depreciation between Denmark and New Zealand
The Case for Fixed Exchange Rates, 1969
International Trade
Group Behavior and International Trade
The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820-1875
Economic Growth
Germany's Overtaking of England, 1806-1914
The Aging Economy
Standards as Public, Collective, and Private Goods
Finance
The Dollar and World Liquidity: A Minority View
Measuring Equilibrium in the Balance of Payments
The Formation of Financial Centers
Anatomy of a Typical Crisis
Gresham's Law
British Financial Reconstruction, 1815-1822 and 1918-1925
Intermediation, Disintermediation, and Direct Trading
Political Economy
The Politics of International Money and World Language
The International Monetary Politics of a Near-Great Power: Two French Episodes, 1926-1936 and 1960-1970
An Explanation of the 1929 Depression
Economic Responsibility
International Public Goods without International Government
Rules vs Men: Lessons from a Century of Monetary Policy
Sources
Index