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Currency Convertibility: The Gold Standard and Beyond

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The spread of currency convertibility is one of the most dramatic trends of the late twentieth century. It reflects the desire of policymakers to integrate their economies into the global trading system and to attract financial capital and direct investment from abroad.

In this book a team of leading international economists and economic historians look at parallel situations in the history of the international monetary system, focusing in particular on the gold standard. The concluding chapter uses a case study of modern Portugal to draw out implications for modern international monetary relations in Europe and for the rest of the world.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published May 16, 1996

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JORGE BRAGA DE MACEDO nasceu em Lisboa, a 1 de Dezembro de 1946. Licenciado em Direito, pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (1971) e Mestre em Relações Internacionais (1973) e em Economia (1975) e Doutor em Economia (1979), pela Yale University. É professor catedrático na Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e investigador do National Bureau of Economic Research (EUA) e do Centre for Economic Policy Research (Reino Unido). Foi Director-Geral Adjunto do Orçamento e Ministro das Finanças do XII Governo Constitucional (1991-1993). É membro da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, desde 1997, e presidiu ao Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical.

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