The making of national money
Subtitle: territorial currencies in historical perspective
By: Eric Helleiner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Money; Money -- Political aspects; Currency question
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-269) and index
Table of contents: title: The initial transformation : from monetary heterogeneity to territorial currencies; title: Two structural preconditions : nation-states and industrial technology; title: Making markets : transaction costs and monetary reform; title: Multiple macroeconomic and fiscal motivations; title: National identities and territorial currencies; title: Two nineteenth-century challenges : currency unions and free banking; title: The coming of age of territorial currencies in the interwar years; title: The monetary dimensions of imperialism : colonial currency reforms; title: The final wave : post-1945 macroeconomic activism and southern reforms