Sterling: The Rise & Fall of a Currency

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Year: 1999
Pages: 306
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 713992581

Product Code: 756751411

Description

Nicholas Mayhew (au). Sterling is both a highly entertaining account of the place of currency in our lives (& the different forms it has taken -- silver, gold, paper, plastic, electronic) & a painless guide to many aspects of economic theory. Perhaps more than any other European currency, the pound sterling has had an almost religious role in the nation’s life. Its continued health, or indeed survival, is something about which many people care deeply. One of this book’s purposes is to show that indeed sterling has had a central part to play in Britain’s view of itself, but that, equally, sterling has always displayed a ruthless opportunism entirely compatible with its transmutation into the euro. Illustrations.

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