Finally, the authors outline the reforms necessary to create monetary, financial and banking systems free of the episodic inflation, devaluation, debt crises, and exchange rate volatility that have plagued the twentieth century.
Money and the Nation-state: Some Questions Surrounding Monetary Sovereignty
National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of a supranational currency by the year 2000.
The central theme of the book is the limitations and constraints on state action which arise from the relation between the (nation) state and the global flow of money.
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Mises believed that Germany should not seek revenge for the ?fetters . . . forced upon German development by the peace of Versailles.” Rather, his theme throughout this book is that Germany should adopt liberal ideas and a free market ...
According to Hobsbawm, nationalist imagery on flags and stamps in this period was driven by the desire of public authorities to devise new methods of maintaining legitimacy in the face of domestic challenges to their rule.
In the further course of the essay, this assertion requires a confrontation and juxtaposition of both concepts and their current perception with the respective historical context.
This book adopts a variety of disciplinary, thematic, and country-based approaches to the complex and contested issues around the character of the nation-state in Latin America. In recent years there...
The history of globalization is anything but a no-frills affair that moves smoothly along a clear-cut, unidirectional path of development, eventually leading to seamless global integration.
As neighboring members of the Commonwealth, both with a settler heritage, New Zealand and Australia had first recognized the ... The TTTA of 1973 simply asserted that citizens of the two countries could continue to live, work, ...