La Guerra de Secesión: Cronologia Mundial Dia a Dia

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Obra donde se trata la historia del dinero desde su aparición hasta nuestros días; entre otras cuestiones, se aborda aquí: las razones por las cuales al oro y la plata se les consideró la materia monetaria por excelencia; el papel moneda y los bancos; los vínculos entre banca y poder; los bancos centrales y sus funciones y facultades; cómo se creó el dinero en la economía moderna; una síntesis del período en que reinó el oro como patrón monetario; las razones por las que el dólar alcanzó su supremacía después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial; las causas por las cuales colapsaron...

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...