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    <title>primer on the dollar in the world economy</title>
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    <namePart>Stevens, Robert Warren</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1918-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Random House</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1972</dateIssued>
    <edition>[1st ed.]</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>vi, 232 p. ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introducing the book -- What is a balance of payments? -- How a balance of payments statement is organized -- What a balance of payments does and does not show -- Trade and capital items in the U. S. balance of payments -- Financing, defining, and interpreting the U. S. balance of payments -- Reinterpreting the rules of the game -- Exchange rates: ordinary market prices or symbols of international prestige? -- Considering international liquidity -- The many faces of the gold standard -- The International Monetary Fund -- The U. S. balance of payments - a second look -- Comparing public and private sectors in the U. S. balance of payments -- The public sector in the U. S. balance of payments -- Problems of the Bretton Woods monetary system -- International monetary reform in the 1960s -- The choices made in the 1960s -- SDRs, Eurodollars, two gold prices, and the dollar standard -- Solving the exchange rate problem -- The U. S. dollar in a new world -- Appendix A: The U. S. balance of payments: a restructuring -- Appendix B: The U. S. balance of payments: a chronology.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Robert Warren Stevens.</note>
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    <topic>Relaciones económicas internacionales</topic>
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    <topic>International finance</topic>
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    <topic>Colección René Villarreal (CRV)</topic>
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