Currencies and Crises

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This text brings together Paul Krugman's work on international monetary economics from the late 1970s to the present, in an effort to make sense of a turbulent period that, in Krugman's words, "involved one surprise after another, most of them unpleasant". The 11 essays cover such key areas as the role exchange rates in balance-of payments adjustment policy, the role of speculation in the functioning of exchange-rate regimes, Third World debt and the construction of an international monetary system.

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"The papers included in this collection reveal the breadth of Krugman'swork in international monetary economics... [This] is a book that anyoneinterested in international monetary economics can refer to repeatedly in thecourse of his or her career. As such, it ought not to gather dust on anybookshelf." Andreas Savides , The Journal of Economics

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Paul Krugman is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and a New York Times columnist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2008.