The importance of the international monetary system is clearly evident in daily news stories about fluctuating currencies and in dramatic events such as the recent reversals in the Mexican economy. It has become increasingly apparent that one cannot understand the international economy without knowing how its monetary system operates. Now Barry Eichengreen presents a brief, lucid book that tells the story of the international financial system over the past 150 years. Globalizing Capital is intended not only for economists but also for a general audience of historians, political scientists, professionals in government and business, and anyone with a broad interest in international economic and political relations. Eichengreen's work demonstrates that insights into the international monetary system and effective principles for governing it can result only if it is seen a historical phenomenon extending from the gold standard period to interwar instability, then to Bretton Woods, and finally to the post-1973 period of fluctuating currencies. Eichengreen analyzes the shift from pegged to floating exchange rates in the 1970s and ascribes that change to the growing capital mobility that has made pegged rates difficult to maintain. However, he shows that capital mobility was also high prior to World War I, yet this did not prevent the maintenance of fixed exchange rates. What was critical for the successful maintenance of fixed exchange rates during that period was the fact that governments were relatively insulated from democratic politics and thus from pressure to trade off exchange rate stability for other goals, such as the reduction of unemployment. Today pegging exchange rates would require very radical reforms of a sort that governments are understandably reluctant to embrace. The implication seems undeniable: floating rates are here to stay.

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, such as highly productive agriculture and sophisticated markets, found in the most advanced regions of Europe. But in many respects, from the central importance of irrigated rice farming to family structure, property rights, the status of merchants, the monetary system, and the imperial state's fiscal and economic policies, China's preindustrial economy diverged from the Western path of development. In this comprehensive but accessible study, Richard von Glahn examines the institutional foundations, continuities and discontinuities in China's economic development over three millennia, from the Bronze Age to the early twentieth century.

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《保护主义:美国经济崛起的秘诀(1815-1914)》内容简介：在美国通过实施保护主义政策而崛起为全球工农业强国的过程中，一种举世无双的被称作美国学派的经济学说发挥着重要的指导作用。美国出于推行自由贸易帝国主义和金融帝国主义的目的，刻意地隐瞒了美国保护主义的历史以及指导美国经济崛起的工业化逻辑，从而使保护主义、美国学派与美国经济崛起的历史成为经济学和历史研究的“黑洞”。 《保护主义:美国经济崛起的秘诀(1815-1914)》揭秘了这段鲜为人知的历史和美国经济崛起的秘诀，叙述了从《根特条约》签订后到1914年期间，美国学派经济学的发展及其与政治斗争之间错综复杂的历史，展现了美国民族主义政治家和经济学家在塑造美国独立自主的内向型工业化模式上所发挥的重要作用。《保护主义:美国经济崛起的秘诀(1815-1914)》对我国启动内需、提高人民生活水平和呼唤经济发展战略大转型具有重要借鉴价值。 《保护主义:美国经济崛起的秘诀(1815-1914)》的中文版与英文版在2010年同步出版，英文版书名为《美国保护主义的兴起：1815-1914年的经济理论与政治》。