TY - BOOK AU - Krugman P. TI - Currencies and Crises SN - 0-262-11165-9 PY - 1995/// CY - Massachusetts PB - The MIT Press KW - exchange KW - payments KW - world economy N1 - п/11322 N2 - "Currencies and Crises" brings together Paul Krugman's work on international monetary economics from the late 1970s to the present, in an effort to make sense of a turbulent period that, in Krugman's words, "involved one surprise after another, most of them unpleasant. "The eleven essays cover such key areas as the role of exchange rates in balance-of-payments adjustment policy, the role of speculation in the functioning of exchange rate regimes, Third World debt, and the construction of an international monetary system ER -