A Culture of Everyday Credit

A Culture of Everyday Credit

Author: Marie Eileen Francois

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0803269234

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A study of the role of pawnshops in the lives and culture of working and middle-class families in Mexico City from the eighteenth century to the present.


The Gold Standard Peripheries

The Gold Standard Peripheries

Author: Anders Ă–gren

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-12-16

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0230362311

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The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime. This book addresses the experience of the gold standard peripheries; i.e. regime takers with limited influence on the regime. How did small countries adjust to an international monetary regime with seemingly little room for policy autonomy?