The Global Gold Market and the International Monetary System from the late 19th Century to the Present (eBook, PDF)

Actors, Networks, Power
Redaktion: Bott, S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Using an inter-disciplinary and global approach this book examines the different roles gold played in the international economy from the late 19th century until today. It gives a complete and comprehensive overview of the many facets of the global gold market's organization from the extraction of this precious metal to its consumption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 205
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137306715
• Artikelnr.: 40721078

Autorenporträt

Catherine R. Schenk, University of Glasgow, UK Steven Topik, University of California, Irvine, USA Stefano Ugolini, Sciences Po Toulouse, France Michele Blagg, Institute of Contemporary British History, King's College London, UK Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Rachel Harvey, Columbia University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Gold Has a History; Olivier Feiertag Introduction: Towards a Global History of Gold; Sandra Bott 1. The Global Gold Market and the International Monetary System; Catherine R. Schenk 2. The Gold Standard in Brazil and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century; Steven Topik 3. The Bank of England as the World Gold Market-Maker during the Classical Gold Standard Era, 1889-1910; Stefano Ugolini 4. Gold Refining in London: The End of a Rainbow 1919-1922; Michele Blagg 5. Gold as a Diplomatic Tool: How the Threat of Gold Purchases Worked as Leverage in International Monetary Relations, 1960-1968; Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl 6. The Hong Kong Gold Market during the 1960s; Catherine R. Schenk 7. South African Gold at the Heart of the Competition between the Zurich and the London Financial Centres in the Bretton Woods Era; Sandra Bott 8. Market Status/Status Markets: The London Gold Fixing in the Bretton Woods Era; Rachel Harvey