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Автор: H. W. Brands
Название: Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
ISBN: 9780292723412
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

Монетарная экономика

Экономическая история

Финансы

ISBN-10: 0292723415
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 147
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 2011-10-01
Серия: Discovering america
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 140 x 18
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Основная тема: Economic history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History,BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy,HISTORY / United States / General
Подзаголовок: How the dollar conquered the world and threatened civilization as we know it
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание:

The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely—even after the global financial meltdown in 2008 revealed the potentially catastrophic cost of the dollars hegemony. But how did the greenback achieve this planetary dominance a mere century and a half after President Lincoln issued the first currency backed only by the credit—and credibility—of the federal government?

In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollars astonishing rise to become the worlds principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollars changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how Americas economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgans bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelts handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollars dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power—and the enormous risks—of the dollars worldwide reign.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction

1. Fiat Lucre: 1863–1907

2. Strong and Stronger: 1907–1928

3. Skulls and Bones: 1929–1944

4. The View from Mount Washington: 1944–1963

5. Floating, Floating .

Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It, H. W. Brands