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Conquering the Fear of Freedom: Japanese Exchange Rate Policy since 1945
Shinji Takagi
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Description for Conquering the Fear of Freedom: Japanese Exchange Rate Policy since 1945
Hardcover. This book documents changes in the foreign exchange rate regime and policy in Japan since the end of the Second World War from a historical perspective. Num Pages: 336 pages, Figures and Tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPQB; KCB; KCZ; KFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 646.
Conquering the Fear of Freedom presents an analytical review of Japanese exchange rate policy from the end of World War II to the present. It examines how authorities, starting with the imposition of draconian controls over all international financial flows, moved toward eliminating virtually all state interference regulating foreign exchange transactions, including official intervention in the foreign exchange market. It describes how policy and institutional frameworks evolved, explains their domestic and international contexts, and assesses the impacts and consequences of policy actions. Following successful exchange rate-based stabilization in the early 1950s, Japan entered the world trading system with an overvalued ... Read more
Conquering the Fear of Freedom presents an analytical review of Japanese exchange rate policy from the end of World War II to the present. It examines how authorities, starting with the imposition of draconian controls over all international financial flows, moved toward eliminating virtually all state interference regulating foreign exchange transactions, including official intervention in the foreign exchange market. It describes how policy and institutional frameworks evolved, explains their domestic and international contexts, and assesses the impacts and consequences of policy actions. Following successful exchange rate-based stabilization in the early 1950s, Japan entered the world trading system with an overvalued ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198714651
SKU
V9780198714651
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Ref
99-22
About Shinji Takagi
Shinji Takagi, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Osaka University, is Assistant Director of the Independent Evaluation Office at the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. He has published widely in international monetary economics and related fields. Professor Takagi holds a PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.
Reviews for Conquering the Fear of Freedom: Japanese Exchange Rate Policy since 1945
A well-written and thoroughly researched history of Japanese exchange rate policy...Conquering the Fear of Freedom deserves to be widely read.
Journal of Japanese Studies
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