Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies by Emily Gilbert
English | 18 Nov. 1999 | ISBN: 0415189268 | 260 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of a supranational currency by the year 2000. Elsewhere, the use of foreign currencies within national economic spaces is on the increase, as shown by the growth of eurocurrency activity, and currency substitution in many parts of the world. In the last decade, privately-issued sub-national local currencies have also proliferated in a number of countries, and predict the emergence of private electronic monies of the future.