Currency wars
Subtitle: the making of the next global crisis
By: James Rickards
Publisher: Portfolio/Penguin
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781591844495
Subjects: Currency crises; Financial crises; Foreign exchange
Description: Drawing on a mix of economic history, network science, and sociology, "Currency Wars" provides a rich understanding of the increasing threats to U.S. national security, from dollar devaluation to collapse in the European periphery, failed states in Africa, Chinese neomercantilism, Russian adventurism, and the current scramble for gold.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pre-war; title: Financial war; title: Reflections on a golden age; title: Currency war I (1921-1936); title: Currency war II (1967-1987); title: Currency war III (2010- ); title: The G20 solution; title: Globalization and state capital; title: The misuse of economics; title: Currencies, capital and complexity; title: Paper, gold or chaos?