Kindleberger, Charles P. - Comparative Political Economy : A Retrospective

Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (2000). orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. viii,500 pp, 23x15cm,. Binding corner bump. Some page-edge spotting. Good. ¶ Contents: Foreign Exchange: Competitive Currency Depreciation between Denmark & New Zealand; The Case for Fixed Interest Rates; International Trade: Group Behavior & International Trade; The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820-1875; Economic Growth: Germany's Overtaking of England, 1806-1914; The Aging Economy; Standards as Public, Collective, & Private Goods; Finance: The Dollar & World Liquidity: A Minority View; Measuring Equilibrium in the Balance of Payments; The Formation of Financial Centers; Anatomy of a Typical Crisis; Gresham's Law; British Financial Reconstruction, 1815-1822 & 1918-1925; Intermediate Disintermediation, and Direct Trading; Political Economy: The Politics of International Money & World Language; The International Monetary Politics of a Near-great Power: Two French Episodes 1926-1936 and 1960-1970; An Explanation of the 1929 Depression; Economic Responsiiblity; International Public Goods without International Government; Rules vs Men: Lessons from a Century of Monetary Policy.