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Richard Byers ◽  
Albert J. Churella ◽  
Albert J. Churella ◽  
Sasha Disko ◽  
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pp. 692-694
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Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of ◽  
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International University ◽  
Florida International University

Mira Wilkins of Florida International University (Emeritus) reviews “Central Banks and Gold: How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World,” by Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the history of the relationships between national money-creation systems and their international connections, concentrating on the connections between Tokyo, London, and New York from the late 1890s to the Great Depression, and explains how these processes have reshaped the flow of resources and distribution of wealth at the global level.”

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