From Gold to Euro
Subtitle: On Monetary Theory and the History of Currency Systems
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 26, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9783540416050
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Monetary economics; Monetary policy; Finance; Foreign Exchange; Monetary Theory; Money & Monetary Policy; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; EU (European Union); Economics - Macroeconomics; Business & Economics / Finance; Business & Economics / Macroeconomics; Business & Economics-Economics - Macroeconomics; Business & Economics-Money & Monetary Policy; Money; Banks and banking, Central; History; International finance
First sentence: Economies which are characterized by private property of resources and market agents striving for their private interests typically create judicial and monetary systems which then cause the process of economic transactions to look much different compared to the often propagated idea of a direct exchange of goods and services.