Power and Imbalances in the Global Monetary System: A Comparative Capitalism Perspective
by M. Vermeiren (Author)

About the author: Mattias Vermeiren is a Researcher in International Political Economy at the Ghent Institute of International Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. His research focuses on the political economy of international monetary relations and has been published in journals such as the Review of International Studies, New Political Economy, Journal of International Relations and Development and International Politics.

About this book:
The author examines the indirect macroeconomic roots of the global financial crisis and Eurozone debt crisis: the escalation of global trade imbalances between the US and China and regional trade imbalances in the Eurozone. He provides new insights into the sources and dynamics of power and instability in the contemporary global monetary system. The book includes following contents:

• Introduction
• International Monetary Power: A Comparative Capitalism Perspective
• The Global Imbalances and the Instability of US Monetary Hegemony
• Rising Imbalances and Diverging Monetary Power in the Eurozone
• Reserve Accumulation and the Entrapment of Chinese Monetary Power
• Global Macroeconomic Adjustment and International Monetary Power
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
  

Series: International Political Economy
Hardcover: 259 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 2014 edition (October 21, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1137397560
ISBN-10: 113739756X