Author : Gerardo della Paolera
Release : 2007-12-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Straining at the Anchor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Straining at the Anchor write by Gerardo della Paolera. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Straining at the Anchor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "Argentine disappointment"—why Argentina persistently failed to achieve sustained economic stability during the twentieth century—is an issue that has mystified scholars for decades. In Straining the Anchor, Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor provide many of the missing links that help explain this important historical episode. Written chronologically, this book follows the various fluctuations of the Argentine economy from its postrevolutionary volatility to a period of unprecedented prosperity to a dramatic decline from which the country has never fully recovered. The authors examine in depth the solutions that Argentina has tried to implement such as the Caja de Conversión, the nation's first currency board which favored a strict gold-standard monetary regime, the forerunner of the convertibility plan the nation has recently adopted. With many countries now using—or seriously contemplating—monetary arrangements similar to Argentina's, this important and persuasive study maps out one of history's most interesting monetary experiments to show what works and what doesn't.