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Author Bytheway, Simon James, 1969- author.

Title Central banks and gold : how Tokyo, London, and New York shaped the modern world / Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler
Published Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource
Series Cornell Studies in Money
Cornell studies in money.
Contents The beginnings of central bank cooperation: Tokyo and London, 1895-1914 -- World war and globalization -- Japan emerges as an international creditor, 1915-1918 -- Postwar alignment -- Wall street discovers Japan, Spring 1920 -- Putting the program into action, 1920-1928 -- Making a market: London and gold in the 1920s -- The rush for gold
Summary In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. In this book, the authors explore how this financialised form of globalism first took shape a century ago, when Tokyo first joined London and New York as a major financial centre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Banks and banking, Central -- History
Banks and banking, International -- History
Money supply -- History
Gold standard -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Economy.
Banks and banking, Central
Banks and banking, International
Gold standard
Money supply
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Metzler, Mark, 1957- author.
LC no. 2019725809
ISBN 9781501706509
1501706500
1501705954
9781501705953