附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- Foreign Exchange -- 2. Competitive Currency Depreciation between Denmark and New Zealand -- 3. The Case for Fixed Exchange Rates, 1969 -- International Trade -- 4. Group Behavior and International Trade -- 5. The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820-1875 -- Economic Growth -- 6. Germany's Overtaking of England, 1806-1914 -- 7. The Aging Economy -- 8. Standards as Public, Collective, and Private Goods -- Finance -- 9. The Dollar and World Liquidity: A Minority View / Charles P. Kindleberger, Emile Despres and Walter S. Salant -- 10. Measuring Equilibrium in the Balance of Payments -- 11. The Formation of Financial Centers -- 12. Anatomy of a Typical Crisis -- 13. Gresham's Law -- 14. British Financial Reconstruction, 1815-1822 and 1918-1925 -- 15. Intermediation, Disintermediation, and Direct Trading -- Political Economy -- 16. The Politics of International Money and World Language -- 17. The International Monetary Politics of a Near-Great Power: Two French Episodes, 1926-1936 and 1960-1970 -- 18. An Explanation of the 1929 Depression -- 19. Economic Responsibility -- 20. International Public Goods without International Government -- 21. Rules vs Men: Lessons from a Century of Monetary Policy.
摘要:"Charles P. Kindleberger's distinguished career has spanned nearly six decades. The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history, especially financial history. They also contain dollops of sociology and political science. Kindleberger views himself as a historical economist who tests economic propositions against the historical record in more than one setting. The collection contains many of the jewels of Kindleberger's work. Most of the papers are strong on comparison (within Western Europe and between Europe and the United States), on economic or financial history, and on social science beyond the confines of economics."--Jacket.
