(Ebook) Pricing Theory, Financing of International Organisations and Monetary History (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) by Lawrenc Officer ISBN 9780203934036, 9780415770651, 0203934032, 0415770653

(Ebook) Pricing Theory, Financing of International Organisations and Monetary History (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) by Lawrenc Officer ISBN 9780203934036, 9780415770651, 0203934032, 0415770653

This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H. Officer in a systematic way. The result is an authoritative treatment of such issues as market structure and economic efficiency where more than one characteristic of a commodity is priced, both in general and in application to shipping conferences; financing of the United Nations and International Monetary Fund; monetary history of the UK and US; and central-bank preferences between gold and dollars, The book first examines multidimensional pricing, defined as pricing when a commodity or service has several characteristics that are priced. The second part is concerned with country-group conflicts in the United Nations and International Monetary Fund. The book then takes a fresh look at historical experiences of monetary-standard upheavals and the final part considers a crucial time (1958-67), during which central-bank gold-dollar decisions were power-politically determined.