Money and the nation state : the financial revolution, government, and the world monetary system / edited by Kevin Dowd & Richard H. Timberlake, Jr. ; foreword by Merton H. Miller.

Contributor Dowd, Kevin.

Imprint:New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c1998.

Descriptionviii, 453 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:I. THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM: 1. An evolutionary theory of the state monopoly over money / David Glasner -- 2. National sovereignty and international monetary regimes / Frank van Dun -- 3. From gold to the Ecu: the international monetary system in retrospect / Leland B. Yeager -- 4. The gold-exchange standard in the interwar years / Murray N. Rothbard -- 5. Gold standard policy and limited government / Richard H. Timberlake -- II. MODERN MONEY AND CENTRAL BANKING: 6. U.S. financial policy in the post-Bretton Woods period / Thomas F. Cargill -- 7. Bank deposit guarantees: why not trust the market? / Genie D. Short, Kenneth J. Robinson -- 8. The IMF's destructive recipe: rising tax rates and falling currencies / Alan Reynolds -- 9. Global economic integration: trends and alternative policy responses / Robert E. Keleher -- III. FOUNDATIONS FOR MONETARY AND BANKING REFORM: 10. The political economy of discretionary monetary policy: a public choice analysis of proposals for reform / Richard C.K. Burdekin, Jilleen Westbrook, Thomas D. Willet -- 11. The misguided drive toward European monetary union / Kevin Dowd -- 12. Monetary nationalism reconsidered / Lawrence H. White -- 13. Currency boards and free banking / Steve H. Hank, Kurt Schuler.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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