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Title:Money doctors around the globe
a historical perspective
From: Andrés Álvarez, Vincent Bignon, Anders Ögren, Masato Shizume, editors
Person: Álvarez, Andrés
Bignon, Vincent
Ögren, Anders
Shizume, Masato
1967-
Other Authors: Álvarez, Andrés (Editor), Bignon, Vincent (Editor), Ögren, Anders 1967- (Editor), Shizume, Masato (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer [2024]
Series:Studies in economic history
Notation:QK 210
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Abstract:This book focuses on worldwide historical experiences of monetary reforms and the reformist minds behind them: the money doctors. The process of doctoring is the process of listening to many pieces of information and sorting them in order to correctly diagnose the causes of the problem and derive the appropriate cure, if it exists. A money doctor is a person who, helped by theoretical and practical knowledge, advises and/or proposes to act on how to build a stable monetary and financial system or to repair ongoing monetary turbulences. Economists and policy makers are money doctors when their involvement includes the observation and diagnostic of the monetary and financial troubles and the proposition for a cure. Each contribution highlights the theoretical underpinning of the doctors, and the key factors for the success or failures of the reform they have promoted. We collect cases from Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania from the 16th to the 20th century and discuss their aims, strategies, and consequences to draw implications for today
Physical Description:xiii, 369 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 24 cm
ISBN:9819701333
9789819701339