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Description / Table of Contents: A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power's currency-the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the Chinese yuan-invariably dominates international trade and finance. In How Global Currencies Work, three noted economists provide a reassessment of this history and the theories behind the conventional wisdom.Offering a new history of global finance over the past two centuries, and marshaling extensive new data to test established theories of how global currencies work, Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, and Livia ChitÌʹu argue for a new view, in which several national monies can share international currency status, and their importance can change rapidly. They demonstrate how changes in technology and in the structure of international trade and finance have reshaped the landscape of international currencies so that several international financial standards can coexist. They show that multiple international and reserve currencies have in fact coexisted in the pastupending the traditional view of the British pound's dominance prior to 1945 and the U.S. dollar's dominance more recently.Looking forward, the book tackles the implications of this new framework for major questions facing the future of the international monetary system, from whether the euro and the Chinese yuan might address their respective challenges and perhaps rival the dollar, to how increased currency competition might affect global financial stability

Description / Table of Contents: This Special Publication is dedicated to heritage stone: those natural stones that have special significance in human culture. Some stones that have had important uses in the past are now neglected because theyare no longer extracted. Others are still commercially important, but their heritage uses have not beenwell documented in widely available sources. The Heritage Stone Task Group of the International Unionof Geological Sciences is working to establish a new formal designation of 'Global Heritage StoneResource' to recognize those stones that have had internationally significant architectural and ornamentaluses. The aim is to spread awareness of the cultural heritage aspects of these stones, to help to encouragecontinued supply for maintenance and repair of important monuments and to preserve historically importantquarries. The aim is neither to promote nor to limit these stones for new construction: in some cases continuingcommercial use might help to ensure future supplies for building conservation purposes.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Global imbalances and the lessons of Bretton Woods ; 2 The anatomy of the gold pool ; 3 How to exit a currency peg: Japan and the end of the Bretton Woods system ; 4 Sterling's past, Dollar's future

Description / Table of Contents: Worldwide examples of global heritage stones: an introduction / Joseph T. Hannibal, S. Kramar and B. J. Cooper / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 1-6, 26 August 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2020-84 --- Victorian Bluestone: a proposed Global Heritage Stone Province from Australia / Susan M. Walter / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 7-31, 1 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486.1 --- Trentino Porphyry, Italy / P. Primavori and A. Angheben / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 33-51, 26 August 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2020-20 --- Cadalso de los Vidrios leucogranite ‘Blanco Cristal’: a widely used heritage stone from Spain / David M. Freire-Lista and Rafael Fort / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 53-65, 9 October 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2017-189 --- Rapakivi granite in the architecture of St Petersburg: a potential Global Heritage Stone from Finland and Russia / Andrey Bulakh, Paavo Härmä, Elena Panova and Olavi Selonen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 67-76, 31 July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2018-5 --- Indiana Limestone: America's building stone / Nelson R. Shaffer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 77-101, 1 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2018-58 --- Solnhofener Plattenkalk: a heritage stone of international significance from Germany / M. Kölbl-Ebert and B. J. Cooper / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 103-113, 1 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2017-324 --- Échaillon stone from France: a Global Heritage Stone Resource proposal / Thierry Dumont and Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Industriel d'Autrefois / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 115-128, 9 July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2019-92 --- Global Heritage Stone: Belgian black ‘marbles’ / Francis Tourneur / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 129-147, 1 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486.5 --- Drenov Grič black limestone: a heritage stone from Slovenia / Sabina Kramar, Nina Žbona, Mojca Bedjanič, Ana Mladenović and Boštjan Rožič / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 149-162, 4 October 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2017-188 --- Seneca sandstone: a heritage stone from the USA / Carol A. Grissom, Emily M. Aloiz, Edward P. Vicenzi and Richard A. Livingston / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 163-176, 20 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486.4 --- Berea sandstone: A heritage stone of international significance from Ohio, USA / Joseph T. Hannibal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 177-204, 27 January 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2019-33 --- Cretaceous building sandstones in northern Germany / Angela Ehling / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 205-215, 1 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486.7 --- The white marbles of Brasília, a World Heritage site and capital of Brazil / Maria Heloisa Barros de Oliveira Frascá, Risale Neves and Nuria Fernández Castro / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 217-227, 23 January 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2018-31 --- Cockeysville marble: a heritage stone from Maryland, USA / Joseph T. Hannibal and Lorraine Schnabel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 229-249, 22 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2019-1 --- Connemara Marble, Co. Galway, Ireland: a Global Heritage Stone Resource proposal / Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, Louise Caulfield, Martin Feely, Ambrose Joyce and Matthew A. Parkes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 251-268, 1 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486.6 --- Gneisses (Serizzo and Beola) of the Verbano–Cusio–Ossola District (Piedmont, northern Italy): possible candidates for designation as Global Heritage Stone Resources / Alessandro Cavallo, Giovanna Antonella Dino and Piero Primavori / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 269-285, 25 October 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2018-8 --- Soapstone in Jugend (Art Nouveau) architecture of northern European cities (1890s–1910s) / Andrey Bulakh, Olavi Selonen and Heikki Pirinen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 287-294, 1 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2017-158 --- Shoksha quartzite, a heritage stone of international importance from Russia / Andrey Bulakh and Jacques Touret / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 295-303, 24 February 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2017-303 --- Heritage stone in Cape Town, South Africa / Doug Cole / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 305-323, 1 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486.3 --- Heritage stones in India / Vinod K. Sharma / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 325-341, 21 November 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2017-151 --- The limits of heritage stone designation / Barry J. Cooper / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, 343-347, 1 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486.2