The Global Monetary System After the Fall of the Soviet Empire

In Memoriam Robert Triffin 1911-1993

• Author(s): Miklós Szabó-Pelsőczi,
• Publisher: Avebury
• Pages: 268
• ISBN_10: 1859720161
  ISBN_13: 9781859720165
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Banks & Banking , Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade , Political Science / Political Economy ,

Description:... This book is a collection of papers presented at a conference held at Castle Szirak, Hungary in memoriam of Robert Triffin, the Belgian-American economist, who taught at Yale (1958-1977). From 1946 almost to his death he was a leading contributor to the creation of the post-war international monetary system, as embodied in the European Payments Union (1950), the First Amendment of the International Monetary Fund (1969), and the European Monetary System (1979).