States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s

by Eric Helleiner

Book Overview

Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central role played by states in permitting and encouraging financial globalization.Helleiner begins by highlighting the commitment of advanced industrial states...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801483336
• ISBN13: 9780801483332
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher