1st Edition

International Money A Collection of Essays

By Charles P. Kindlerberger Copyright 1981
    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