Kazuhiko Yago, The Financial History of the Bank for International Settlements, Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy (London: Routledge, 2013, 240 pp.; ISBN 978-0-415-63524-0)

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-215
Author(s):  
Hubert Bonin
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Financial History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bank For International Settlements

scholarly journals DIGITAL INSTITUTIALIZATION AT THE GLOBAL, INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Ольга Васильевна Хмыз
Keyword(s):  
International Finance ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
Bank For International Settlements ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Stimulation Of

В статье анализируются новейшие процессы цифровизации в аспекте цифровой институциализации, охватывающей различные уровни современной мировой экономики - от глобального до национального. Цель статьи - на основе анализа практики внедрения цифровой институциализации на различных уровнях выявить их особенности и соответствие современным требованиям развития мировой экономики и системы международных финансов. Научная новизна исследования заключается, во-первых, в рассмотрении недостаточно изученного в экономической литературе направления (цифровой институциализации), во-вторых, в анализе и выявлении закономерностей на основе новейших статистических данных и последних нормативных изменений. Несмотря на присущие им некоторые характерные черты, в целом отмечается нарастание цифровизационных процессов, прежде всего при участии финансово-технологических компаний, а также при поддержке регулирующих органов. Анализируя их протекание, автор приходит к выводу о нарастающем стимулировании использования диджитальных валют в форме стейблкоина, поддерживаемого Банком международных расчетов и G7 - на глобальном уровне, и соответствующими институтами государственного регулирования - на региональном и национальном уровнях. The article analyzes the latest digitalization processes in the aspect of digital institutialization, covering various levels of the modern world economy - from global to national. The purpose of the article is, based on an analysis of the practice of introducing digital institutialization at various levels, to identify their features and comply them with the modern requirements for the development of the world economy and the system of international finance. The scientific novelty of the study lies, firstly, in considering the direction (digital institutialization) that has not been sufficiently studied in the economic studies, and secondly, in analyzing and identifying patterns based on the latest statistical data and the latest regulatory changes. Despite some characteristic features inherent to them in general, there is an increase in digitalization processes, primarily with the participation of fintech companies, as well as with the support of regulatory bodies. Analyzing their course, the author comes to the conclusion about the growing stimulation of the use of digital currencies in the form of a stablecoin, supported by the Bank for International Settlements and the G7 - at the global level, and by the relevant institutions of state regulation - at the regional and national levels.

scholarly journals The Coffee Commodity Chain in the World-Economy: Arrighi's Systemic Cycles and Braudel's Layers of Analysis

2011 ◽  
pp. 58-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Commodity Chain ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Material Life ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This article presents a history of coffee in the modern world-economy, w;ing an analyticalframework synthesized from Arrighi's concept of systemic cycles of accumulation and Braudel'snotion of three levels of economic analysis: material life, the market economy, and capitalism. Ittakes the commodity chain as the unit of analysis, and argues that this choice helps to illuminatethe caw;al connections between Braudel 's three layers. The method of incorporated comparisonis w;ed to compare restructurings of the coffee commodity chain with the restructurings of thelarger world-economy during each of Arrighi 's systemic cycles.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF THE US MONETARY AND FINANCIAL HEGEMONY IN THE MODERN WORLD: BASIC INSTRUMENTS AND CHANNELS OF INFLUENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
N.N. Muzlova ◽  
A.A. Latypov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic History ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Imf

The purpose of the study is to determine the role of the USA dollar in the modern world and consider the monetary and financial instruments used by the United States to maintain its economic and political hegemony, as well as the possible consequences of using these instruments. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set in the work: to study the economic history of the dominance of the dollar, to determine the impact of monetary policy and financial instruments of the United States on the world economy, to analyze the role of the IMF in maintaining the financial hegemony of the United States. Scientific hypothesis of the study is that the dollar and the financial institutions of the United States are key components of the modern economic world order and substantiate the monetary and financial hegemony of the United States, which consists in the ability of the United States to control the world economy, influence the economic situation in different countries, and implement its geopolitical goals with the help of economic instruments. This article contains an analysis of the US foreign economic policy aimed at the maintaining the primacy of the United States in both the sphere of world monetary and financial relations and in the political dimension. The article provides a summary of the most important events in the economic history of the dollar: the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and the 2008 global financial crisis. Particular attention is paid to the financial instruments of US foreign policy influence, in particular, access to financial markets, investments, as well as the use of the IMF as an instrument for achieving US foreign policy goals. The scientific novelty lies in the approach to US geoeconomics, namely the imposition of the economic dimension on the political one. As a result, it is concluded that the US dollar, the Federal Reserve System and the IMF are indeed the most authoritative and significant components of the existing world economic system, using which the United States acts as a monetary and financial hegemon and has a wide range of tools to control the global financial system.

2050: The End of the Growth Era?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Sornette
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Financial History ◽  
Positive Feedbacks ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Financial Indices ◽  
Finite Time Singularity

This chapter examines stock market crashes in the entire financial history of the United States as well as the world economy and population dynamics over the last 2,000 years. It suggests the existence of strong positive feedbacks that point to an underlying finite-time singularity around 2050, signaling a fundamental change of regime of the world economy and population around 2050 (a super crash?). Three leading scenarios are described: collapse, transition to sustainability, and superhumans. After analyzing financial as well as economic and population times series over the longest time scales for which reliable data is available, the chapter considers the pessimistic viewpoint of “natural” scientists vs. the optimistic viewpoint of “social” scientists regarding human population size and growth. It also discusses the faster-than-exponential growth of population, GDP, and financial indices before concluding with an overview of the increasing propensity to emulate the stock market approach.

scholarly journals Problematic Issues and Organization of the Fight against Illegal Export of Capital to Offshore Zones

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Tatyana Lepa
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
World Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Financing Of Terrorism ◽  
Illicit Substances

In modern conditions, world power structures are actively looking for effective ways to minimize the risks posed by criminal schemes related to the withdrawal of capital to offshore zones. These wrongful acts have adverse economic consequences both for individual countries and for the entire world economy. They facilitate laundering of criminal money and prevent anonymous identification of sources of income for smugglers who illegally move illicit substances, drugs and weapons across borders. The article defines the notion and gives a brief history of the emergence of offshore zones and the reasons for their being in demand in the modern world. Real examples of illegal export of capital from Russia abroad are given, as well as some statistical data in dynamics on the number of cases identified and initiated by the Russian customs office. Legislative initiatives aimed at minimizing losses from criminal currency export schemes and motivating persons to return previously exported funds have been analysed. World trends in the organization of control and fight against illegal export of funds to offshore zones, also in order to prevent financing of terrorism, are considered. Options for solving problematic issues in this sphere are proposed.

scholarly journals The New Hegemon? Contingency and Agency in the Asian Age

2009 ◽  
pp. 220-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bair
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
World System ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree

Adam Smith in Beijing is an ambitious sequel to the work that is widely regarded as Giovanni Arrighi’s most important, The Long Twentieth Century. Much like this earlier book, Adam Smith in Beijing is a long, sweeping and provocative exploration of capitalism’s past, present, and future. In The Long Twentieth Century, Arrighi analyzed the 700 year history of the modern world system as a series of cycles of accumulation, each of which occurred under the auspices of a hegemonic power, and each of which included a period of material expansion followed, late in the cycle, by a shift in the locus of capital accumulation to the financial sector. Arrighi’s analysis of four successive regimes—the Genoese, Dutch, British, and U.S.—drew on Braudel’s concept of the “autumn of a hegemonic system,” which refers to the period of financial expansion marking the maturation of a particular regime of accumulation and its eventual displacement by a new one. This perspective enabled Arrighi to understand the financialization of the world economy, proceeding apace at the time under then-President Clinton, in the context of the longue durée in which one (declining) hegemon’s autumn is another (rising) hegemon’s spring.

scholarly journals Commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside: a research agenda

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Sven Beckert ◽  
Ulbe Bosma ◽  
Mindi Schneider ◽  
Eric Vanhaute
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Global History ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World

Abstract Over the past 600 years, commodity frontiers – processes and sites of the incorporation of resources into the expanding capitalist world economy – have absorbed ever more land, ever more labour and ever more natural assets. In this paper, we claim that studying the global history of capitalism through the lens of commodity frontiers and using commodity regimes as an analytical framework is crucial to understanding the origins and nature of capitalism, and thus the modern world. We argue that commodity frontiers identify capitalism as a process rooted in a profound restructuring of the countryside and nature. They connect processes of extraction and exchange with degradation, adaptation and resistance in rural peripheries. To account for the enormous variety of actors and places involved in this history is a critical challenge in the social sciences, and one to which global history can contribute crucial insights.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document