AW: Money and the gold standard

estoy muy de acuerdo con lo que dices, hector. vease tambien mi analisis del
euro,

http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/archive/books/tausch/spartoc.htm


capitulo III.9 - The Rotten Heart of Europe

quizas podemos entrar en un debate 'virtual'

arno


vease tambien, especialmente:


Ch. 7   Raul Prebisch's Contribution to a Humane World (Steffen Flechsig)
103     

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        Biographical Sketches           
Pt. 1   Introduction    1       
Ch. 1   Introduction (Andreas Müller OFM, Arno Tausch, Paul M. Zulehner)
3       
Pt. 2   Towards an Ecumenical View of Capitalism and the Religions 'of the
Book'   27      
Ch. 2   Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introductory Approach to their
Real or Supposed Specificities by a Non-Theologian (Samir Amin) 29      
Pt. 3   Formulating a Liberation Theology Agenda of the 1990s and Beyond
45      
Ch. 3   Economics and Theology, Reflections on the Market, Globalization and
the Kingdom of God (Jung Mo Sung)       47      
Ch. 4   Saint Francis and Capitalist Modernity. A View from the South
(Alberto da Silva Moreira)      61      
Ch. 5   Feminism in the Country of Liberation Theology: Peru (Krystyna
Tausch) 79      
Ch. 6   Ethical, Biblical and Theological Aspects of Foreign Debt (Andreas
Müller) 91      
Ch. 7   Raul Prebisch's Contribution to a Humane World (Steffen Flechsig)
103     
Pt. 4   The Lessons of 'Critical' Development Research and the Contemporary
Capitalist World System 125     
Ch. 8   Liberation Theology and the Social Sciences: Seven Hypotheses about
The World Capitalist System in Our Age (Arno Tausch)    127     
Ch. 9   Development in the Light of Recent Debates about Development Theory
(S. Mansoob Murshed)    153     
Ch. 10  New Forms of Dependence in the World System (Kunibert Raffer)   169

Pt. 5   The Challenges of Globalization and Transnational Integration   185

Ch. 11  Towards a Theology of the Democratization of Europe (Severin
Renoldner)      187     
Ch. 12  The Race to the Bottom (Robert J. Ross) 199     
Ch. 13  New Departures. On the Social Positioning of the Christian Churches
Before and After Communism in Central and Eastern Europe (Paul M. Zulehner)
215     
Ch. 14  The Church of the Southern Andes in Peru: Its Commitment in Favor of
the Poor (Luis Zambrano)        231     
        Statistical Appendix - Poverty, Dependency, Human Right Violations
and Economic Growth in the World System 241     
        Resources for Further Studies   257     
        An Attempt at an Ecumenical and Cross Cultural Bibliography     259

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> ----------
> Von:  Hector E. Maletta[SMTP:hmaletta@overnet.com.ar]
> Gesendet:     Montag, 19. Juni 2000 16:35
> An:   Roslyn Bologh
> Cc:   John O'Donnell; md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu; pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu;
> wsn@csf.colorado.edu; ipe@csf.colorado.edu; pkt@csf.colorado.edu
> Betreff:      Money and the gold standard
> 
> The current discussion on this list on central banking and the gold
> standard, it seems to me, needs some stronger foundation on economic
> analysis before jumping to political considerations on fractions of the
> bourgeoisie and other similar matters. I should advise first reading a
> good book on International Economics such as Krugman and Obstfeld, and
> several books on monetary systems both of historical and theoretical
> interest, such as the following:
> 
> Giulio Gallarotti, The Anatomy of an International Monetary Regime: The
> Classical Gold Standard 1880-1914. Oxford University Press, 1995.
> 
> Barry Eichengreen, Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great
> Depression, 1919-1939. Oxford University Press, 1995.
> 
> Barry Eichengreen (editor), The Gold Standard in Theory and Practice,
> Methuen, 1985.
> 
> Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International
> Monetary System. Princeton University Press, 1995.
> 
> Peter Isard, Exchange Rate Economics. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
> On the issue of the current international monetary system, its problems
> and proposed fixes, one may read:
> 
> Ronald McKinnon, The Rules of the Game: International Money and Exchange
> Rates. The MIT Press, 1996.
> 
> Barry Eichengreen, Toward a New International Financial Architecture.
> Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, 1999.
> 
> It may also be quite useful to read the book by B. Eichengreen, European
> Monetary Unification: Theory, Practice, and Analysis (The MIT Press,
> 1997).
> 
> 
> By the way, the idea of approaching this subject based on Hilferding is
> risible. His approach was inappropriate before World War I, let alone
> today. I'd advise the hard road taken by Marx himself on his solitary
> bench in the British Museum Library: detailed study of economic facts
> and economic literature, painful construction (which would in all
> probability remain inconclusive) of a critical view of the economic
> system. 'Critical', besides, has here the precise philosophical sense of
> 'rigorously rational and scientific', and not necessarily the everyday
> meaning of 'damning' or 'politically progressive'.
> 
> As this particular message is growing too long already, I leave for a
> separate posting my own ideas on the matter of money and the gold
> standard.
> 
> Hector Maletta
> Universidad del Salvador
> Buenos Aires, Argentina
>