Financial crisis, contagion, and containment :: from Asia to Argentina /

This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Retracing the story of Asia's ""Crisis Five""--Indonesia, Malaysia, South K...

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1. Verfasser: Desai, Padma (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003]
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Zusammenfassung:This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Retracing the story of Asia's ""Crisis Five""--Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand--Padma Desai argues that the region's imprudently fast-paced opening to the free flow of capital was pushed by determined advocates, official and private, in the global economy's U.S.-led developed center. Turmoil ensued in these peripheral economies, the Russian ruble faltered, and Braz
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 303 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index.
ISBN:9781400865376
1400865379
0691164606
9780691164601

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