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Originally published in 1987 to commemorate the 40th anniversary
of the Marshall Plan, this fascinating collection of essays, from
an eminent 'insider' to the Marshall Plan, combines economics,
politics and history to provide authoritative and personal insights
into the creation of one of the greatest foreign aid programmes of
the twentieth century.
Any reader interested in the Marshall Plan itself, the inner
workings of a major act of US foreign policy, and its many
economic, political and historical facets will welcome the reissue
of this valuable book from one of America's most distinguished
economists.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include
money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance,
international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an
occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium.
Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial
institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and
contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as
transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating
investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary
mess. The first half of the book covers money, banking and finance
from 1450 to 1913; the second deals in considerably finer detail
with the twentieth century.
This major work casts current issues in historical perspective and
throws light on the fascinating, and far from orderly, evolution of
financial institutions and the management of financial problems.
Comprehensive, critical and cosmopolitan, this book is both an
outstanding work of reference and essential reading for all those
involved in the study and practice of finance, be they economic
historians, financial experts, scholarly bankers or students of
money and banking.
This groundbreaking work was first published in 1984.
This book was first published in 1985.
This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include
money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance,
international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an
occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium.
Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial
institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and
contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as
transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating
investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary
mess. The first half of the book covers money, banking and finance
from 1450 to 1913; the second deals in considerably finer detail
with the twentieth century. This major work casts current issues in
historical perspective and throws light on the fascinating, and far
from orderly, evolution of financial institutions and the
management of financial problems. Comprehensive, critical and
cosmopolitan, this book is both an outstanding work of reference
and essential reading for all those involved in the study and
practice of finance, be they economic historians, financial
experts, scholarly bankers or students of money and banking. This
groundbreaking work was first published in 1984.
Originally published in 1987 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of
the Marshall Plan, this fascinating collection of essays, from an
eminent 'insider' to the Marshall Plan, combines economics,
politics and history to provide authoritative and personal insights
into the creation of one of the greatest foreign aid programmes of
the twentieth century. Any reader interested in the Marshall Plan
itself, the inner workings of a major act of US foreign policy, and
its many economic, political and historical facets will welcome the
reissue of this valuable book from one of America's most
distinguished economists.
In the Eighth Edition of this classic text on the financial history
of bubbles and crashes, Robert McCauley joins with Robert Aliber in
building on Charles Kindleberger's renowned work. McCauley draws on
his central banking experience to introduce new chapters on
cryptocurrency and the United States as the 21st Century global
lender of last resort. He also updates the book's coverage of the
recent property bubble in China, as well as providing new
perspectives on the US housing bubble of 2003-2006, and the
Japanese bubble of the late 1980s. And he gives new attention to
the social psychology that leads people to take the risk of
investing in Ponzi schemes and asset price bubbles. For the first
time in this revised and updated edition, figures highlight key
points to ensure that today's generation of finance and economic
researchers, students, practitioners and policy-makers-as well as
investors looking to avoid crashes-have access to this panoramic
history of financial crisis.
This book examines why certain countries have achieved, at some period in their history, economic superiority over all other countries. The author is particularly interested not only in the factors that lead to this primacy, but also the factors that cause the primacy to end. The study begins in 1350 with Italian city-states, and continues through Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, Great Britain, and the United States. Additional chapters treat France as a perennial challenger, Germany which twice waged war to attain primacy, and Japan.
It is generally known that the United States, a large country,
has spawned business corporations that transcend international
boundaries--"multinationals." What is not generally known is that
many smaller countries are rapidly following suit--they too are
opening and expanding international operations for their own local
firms. This book is the first organized effort by scholars to deal
with non-American international corporations as a general
phenomenon.Initially presented at a colloquium devoted to the
subject held at MIT in January 1976, these seven essays bring to
light the relatively unpublicized international activities of firms
originating in a number of geographically and economically diverse
smaller countries.
Charles P. Kindleberger is widely regarded as among the most
accessible and intelligent practitioners of the economist's craft.
This collection of his papers and lectures, articles and reviews,
prepared over the past decade, focuses on the role of multinational
corporations in the international economy, their relationships with
home and host countries (both developed and less developed), the
determinants of their size, the impetus to their investment
behavior, their history, the literature about them, and their
regulation.Chapters relate the phenomenon of the multinational
corporation to the body of economic theory. They discuss
multinational corporations in world affairs, size of firm and size
of nation, the clash of economics and sociology and politics in the
internationalization of business, restrictions on direct investment
in host countries, direct investment in less developed countries
and in militant developing nations, ownership and contract in
international business, and multinationals and the small open
economy.The origins of United States direct investment in France,
and international banks and international business are taken up,
followed by Kindleberger's reviews of major books on the
multinational corporation and including his criticisms of such
popular writing as Barnet and Moller's Global Reach, and Magdoff's
Age of Imperialism.Kindleberger's policy statements before various
national and international governments, in which he proposes the
creation of a loose framework among national authorities to
harmonize policies toward the multinational corporation are also
included.Charles P. Kindleberger is Ford International Professor of
Economics Emeritus, MIT and Visiting Professor, Brandeis
University.
This collection of essays addresses the vital question of how
much the theory of direct foreign investment - developed a decade
ago before many drastic changes took place on the international
economic scene - still holds. Grouped in five major sections, they
cover The Theory of Direct Foreign Investment; Industrial
Organization and International Markets; Country Studies;
International Finance; and Implications for the United
States.Charles P. Kindleberger is Ford International Professor of
Economics, Emeritus, at MIT. David B. Audretsch is Assistant
Professor of Economics at Middlebury College.
This book is essentially an exercise in methodology, addressed to economists and economic historians alike. Too many economists discover a relationship or a uniformity in economic behavior, develop a model, and use it to explain more than it is capable of, including on occasion all economic behavior. In Economic Laws and Economic History Charles Kindleberger makes a powerful case against the idea that any one model or law could be used to unlock the basic secrets of economic history.
First published in 1988, this study of international capital
movements looks at their historical role in the financing of trade
and their dramatically increased role in the world economy in
recent years. It examines the current economic theory and the
policy implications of these changes. Beginning with an analysis of
the balance of payments, the authors goes on to discuss
international short-term and long-term capital movements, both
historically and with reference to current events. A further
chapter deals with financial deregulation and the progression
during the last few years towards the integration of international
capital markets. The author looks forward to two possible futures
for international finance: a gradual federalisation of
macro-economic behaviour on a world basis, or a move towards
self-reliance and autarky. The book is based on the author's
Marshall Lectures, given in the University of Cambridge. It will be
of interest to those studying international and financial
economies, graduate students and those involved in the formulation
of policy.
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