Eric Helleiner 
The Making of National Money [PDF ebook] 
Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective

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Why should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique perspective on this question in his accessible history of the origins of national money. Our contemporary understandings of national currency are, Helleiner shows, surprisingly recent. Based on standardized technologies of production and extraction, territorially exclusive national currencies emerged for the first time only during the nineteenth century. This major change involved a narrow definition of legal tender and the exclusion of tokens of value issued outside the national territory. ‘Territorial currencies’ rapidly became bound up with the rise of national markets, and money reflected basic questions of national identity and self-presentation: In what way should money be managed to serve national goals? Whose pictures should go on the banknotes? Helleiner draws out the potent implications of this largely unknown history for today’s context. Territorial currencies face challenges from many monetary innovations—the creation of the euro, dollarization, the spread of local currencies, and the prospect of privately issued electronic currencies. While these challenges are dramatic, the author argues that their significance should not be overstated. Even in their short historical life, territorial currencies have never been as dominant as conventional wisdom suggests. The future of this kind of currency, Helleiner contends, depends on political struggles across the globe, struggles that echo those at the birth of national money.

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Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. His previous books include States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s, also from Cornell.

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Taal Engels ● Formaat PDF ● Pagina’s 296 ● ISBN 9781501720727 ● Bestandsgrootte 35.8 MB ● Uitgeverij Cornell University Press ● Stad Ithaca ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2018 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6432749 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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