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Title: Paper Promises: How Money Works and What Happens When It Doesn't
Publisher: Allen Lane
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1846145104
ISBN 13: 9781846145100
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Weight: 16 ounces

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London. 22 cm. x, 294 p. Encuadernaci�n en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma Ingl�s. Philip Coggan. Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-285) and index. Contents 1. Nature of Money -- 2. Ignoring Polonius -- 3. Going for Gold -- 4. Money and the Depression -- 5. Dancing with the Dollar -- 6. Paper Promises -- 7. Blowing Bubbles -- 8. Riding the Gravy Train -- 9. Crisis Begins -- 10. Not So Risk-free -- 11. Bequeathing Our Debts -- 12. Paying the Bill -- 13. New Order .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y se�ales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 9781846145100 (pbk.); 1846145104 (pbk.)

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Philip Coggan was a Financial Times journalist for over twenty years, and is now the Buttonwood columnist for the Economist. In 2009 he was named Senior Financial Journalist in the Harold Wincott awards and was voted Best Communicator at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards. He is the author of The Money Machine, and Paper Promises, winner of the Spears Business Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

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