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The Case for a New ECU

Towards another Monetary System

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  • © 1989

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  1. Jacques Riboud
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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Parable of the Master Tailor and his Pair of Scissors

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Keys to Monetary Analysis

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 7-12

  4. Future Monetary Possibilities

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 13-18

  5. How Money is Created: Some Fables and Comedies

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 19-33

  6. Waiting in the Wings: The Bankers’ Clearing Mechanism

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 34-40

  7. The Other Side of the Coin

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 41-49

  8. The President’s 3 Per Cent

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 50-54

  9. M1, M2, M3 and the Rest

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 55-85

  10. A Hidden Virtue of the Gold Standard

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 86-91

  11. Mingling with the Crowd at the IMF: The ‘American Connection’

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 92-98

  12. From a Full Value ECU to a Constant ECU

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 99-104

  13. How to Sell a Currency that is Better Than All the Others

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 105-117

  14. An Ocean of Red Ink

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 118-124

  15. Economic Asphyxiation

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 125-135

  16. Monetary Regulation: Regrets and Hopes

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 136-150

  17. Investment and Employment: A Doubt, a Reconsideration and a Proposal

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 151-161

  18. Back to the Thirties

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 162-170

  19. Towards a New Bretton Woods?

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 171-175

  20. Chaos in the Foreign Exchanges

    • Jacques Riboud
    Pages 176-183
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25 years since the ECU was established, this work analyzes the situation in the international monetary system, where the prevailing disorder is disrupting economies, undermining growth, provoking protectionism and threatening to set the nations against each other.

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