- Hardcover: 220 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (Aug 18 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312158998
- ISBN-13: 978-0312158996
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.7 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 372 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,070,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In financial pundit Erdman's analysis, the global currency instability of 1995 began with the barely noticed devaluation of the Mexican peso, ricocheted throughout Latin America and mushroomed when Japanese investors suffered heavy losses in U.S. stocks, bonds, loans and real estate. This concise, lucid primer, interwoven with charts, graphs and diagrams, will transform the financially illiterate person into an armchair expert on such topics as currency markets, derivatives and international trade. Challenging the dire predictions of doomsayers such as Paul Kennedy, Lester Thurow and Michael Crichton, who envisaged the eclipse of the U.S. as a superpower, Erdman foresees steady U.S. economic growth through the 1990s, with low unemployment. But he also sets forth a worst-case scenario of global monetary collapse triggered by a free fall of the dollar, by escalating Japanese-U.S. confrontation or by external systemic shocks. Finally, he predicts that the European Monetary Union, an eight-nation currency bloc scheduled to begin in 1999, will be a formidable new player in the global arena, with Germany as its guiding force.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The international currency market today directly affects all of us. Financial columnist, magazine editor, radio and TV commentator, and author (The Swiss Account, Tor, 1993), Erdman gives us this succinct but fascinating story of the flow of U.S. dollars and Japanese yen around the globe. He addresses the dollar-yen history and current crisis and offers predictions and lending advice to speculators and business experts. While analyzing the drastic decline of the Mexican peso, the gradual strengthening of the German Deutsche mark, and other currency changes, he centers on the U.S.-Japan predicament. The volume's three parts provide figures and tables that chart the recent trends over time and across national borders. Sure to stir some controversy on both sides of the Pacific, this provocative book should be studied by business and government leaders, scholars, and others interested in the future role of international currency exchange.?Joseph W. Leonard, Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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