Playing Monopoly with the Devil: Dollarization and Domestic Currencies in Developing Countries

by Manuel Hinds

Why should a developing country surrender its power to create money by adopting an international currency as its own? This comprehensive book explores the currency problems that developing countries face and offers sound, practical advice for policy makers on how to deal with them. Manuel Hinds, who has extensive experience in real-world economic policy making, challenges the myths that surround domestic currencies and shows the clear rationality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300113307
• ISBN13: 9780300113303
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"