Monetary Regimes in Transition

This important contribution to comparative economic history examines different countries'' experiences with different monetary regimes. The contributors lay particular emphasis on how the regimes fared when placed under stress such as wars and/or other changes in the economic environment. Covering the experience of ten countries over the period 1700-1990 the book employs the latest techniques of economic analysis in order to understand why particular monetary regimes and policies succeeded or failed.