1st Edition

International Money A Collection of Essays

By Charles P. Kindlerberger Copyright 1981
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

This book was first published in 1981.

Introduction

PART 1: INTERNATIONAL MONEY

1. The benefits of international money

2. The politics of international money and world language

3. Time and money

4. The dollar and world liquidity: a minority view (with Emile Despres and Walter S. Salant)

5. An economist's view of the eurodollar market: two puzzles

6. The SDR as international money

7. The price of gold and the N - 1 problem

8 Money illusion and foreign exchange

9. The eurodollar and the internationalization of United States monetary policy

PART 2: INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS

10. The balance of payments as seen in the economic report of the President for 1966

11. Measuring equilibrium in the balance of payments

12. Germany's persistent balance-of-payments disequilibrium revisited

13. THe case for fixed exchange rates, 1969

14. Lessons for floating exchange rates

PART 3: INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKETS

15. Capital movements and international payments adjustment

16. The pros and cons of an international capital market

17. Less developed countries and the international capital market

18. Quantity and price, especially in financial markets

19. International financial intermediation for developing countries

PART 4: TOWARD A NEW MONETARY WORLD ORDER

20. The international monetary system

21. Systems of international economic organization

22. Optimal economic interdependence

 

Biography

CHARLES P. KINDLEBERGER Ford International Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Senior Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology