Globalization, Politics, and Financial Turmoil
Subtitle: Asia's Banking Crisis (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780521854924
Subjects: Banking; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political economy; Public Policy - Economic Policy; General; Banks & Banking; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Globalization; Political Science / General; Banking law; Asia; Bank management; Banks and banking; Capital movements
First sentence: On July 2, 1997, Rerngchai Marakanond, the governor of the Thai central bank, announced that he did not control sufficient foreign reserves to defend his country's currency from speculative attacks.