Focusing on monetization of international trade per se, this text analyses common financial practices of merchants and manufacturers, commercial banks, and central banks.
How do nations trade when no purely international money exists? This book describes how the use of national currencies, only some of which have the important international property of being...
Guillermo Calvo, who foresaw the financial crisis that followed the devaluation of Mexico's peso, has spent much of his career thinking beyond the conventional wisdom. In a quiet and understated way,...
This history of international monetary relations since World War II combines an analysis of events with an examination of the economic theories devised to explain them, showing how theoretical...