Promoting Global Monetary and Financial Stability

By Claudio Borio (editor), Stijn Claessens (editor), Piet Clement (editor) , Robert N. McCauley (editor) , Hyun Song Shin (editor)

Book cover of Promoting Global Monetary and Financial Stability: The Bank for International Settlements after Bretton Woods, 1973-2020

Book description

As the global organisation of central banks, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has played a significant role in the momentous changes the international monetary and financial system has undergone over the past half century. This book offers a key contribution to understanding these changes. It explores the rise of…

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1 author picked Promoting Global Monetary and Financial Stability as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book tells the story of the global expansion of the dollar system after the collapse of Bretton Woods from the perspective of the BIS, the global central bank.

Created in 1930, as a last-ditch effort to backstop the sterling system (among other reasons), the story of the BIS runs parallel to the story I tell in my book.  This morning in class I asked my students, most of them international relations majors, if any of their other courses had mentioned the BIS, and not a single hand went up. Hence this recommendation!

Kindleberger worked at the BIS 1939-1940 and…

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