| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series in global politics
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SUNY series in global politics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index. |
| Contents |
Financial predominance and international economic leadership -- Social construction and the logic of money -- The seventeenth century and Dutch leadership -- The nineteenth century and British leadership -- The interwar period and the great depression -- The postwar period : American leadership? -- Conclusions and implications. |
| Summary |
While other studies of international leadership have looked at a variety of measures to predict behavior, this book demonstrates that the key factor is international finance. J. Samuel Barkin uses an innovative blend of rationalist and constructivist methodologies, approaches to international political economy that normally exist in isolation from one another. Barkin argues that the level of a country's involvement in international finance specifically motivates it to lead. This is particularly relevant today, given the on-going discussions on how to respond to local and global financial crises. Barkin illustrates his theory with an episodic history of international monetary leadership over the last four centuries: Dutch leadership in the seventeenth century; British leadership in the nineteenth; the failure of leadership in the interwar era and Great Depression; and the role of the U.S. in the construction of an international economic infrastructure since World War II. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Finance -- History.
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Finance. |
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History. |
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International economic relations -- History.
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International economic relations. |
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Money -- History.
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Money. |
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Leadership -- History.
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Leadership. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barkin, J. Samuel, 1965- Social construction and the logic of money. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2003 0791455823 0791455815 (DLC) 2002002468 (OCoLC)49225247 |
| ISBN |
1417519290 (electronic book) |
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9781417519293 (electronic book) |
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0791455823 (PB ACID FREE) |
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9780791455821 (PB ACID FREE) |
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0791455815 (HC ACID FREE) |
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9780791455814 (HC ACID FREE) |
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9780791487556 |
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0791487555 |
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