Throughout the 1990s, numerous financial crises rocked the world financial sector. The Asian bubble burst, for example; Argentina and Brazil suffered currency crises; and the post-Soviet economy bottomed out in Russia. In Financial Crises, a distinguished group of economists and policy analysts examine and draw lessons from attempts to recover from past crises. They also consider some potential hazards facing the world economy in the 21st century and discuss ways to avoid them and minimize the severity of any future downturn. This important new volume emerges from the seventh annual conference on emerging markets finance, cosponsored and organized by the World Bank and the Brookings Institution. In the book, noted experts address the following questions: How effective were post-crisis policies in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East and Central Asia? Where do international financial markets stand ten years after the worldwide debt crisis? How can the provision of financial services resume vigorously, yet safely? What are the viable policy options for reducing systemic financial vulnerability? What will the next emerging-market financial crisis look like? Will lessons learned from past experiences help to avoid future disasters? How can nations reform their pension systems to deal with retirement challenges in the 21st century?

Financial Crises: Lessons from the Past, Preparation for the Future

Business & Money

Gerard Caprio Jr.

James A. Hanson

Robert E. Litan

Economics

Brookings Institution Press

This book is intended as both a guide to the identification of typical Teton metal objects and when and how they were used, and a study in the transition of the Teton Sioux Indians from a stone age people in the eighteenth century to a nation almost totally dependent by 1880 on white man's goods obtained from traders and through other channels. Soft cover, 118 pages, nearly 200 illustrations. The Table of Contents includes the following: List of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations for Sources and Credits Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Early Trade Goods Chapter 3 Metal Weapons Firearms Northwest Guns Trade Rifles Breechloading Repeating Rifles Breechloading Single-Shot Rifles Pistols Double-Barreled Shotguns Arrowheads Lance Heads Knife Clubs Tomahawks Swords Chapter 4 Metal Tools Knives Axes and Hatchets Cooking Utensils Kettles Skillets and Grills Coffee Pots and Cups Leatherworking and Sewing Tools Awls Hide Scrapers Scissors Needles Quill Flatteners Hoes and Spades Firesteels Horse Equipment Files Miscellaneous Metal Tools Chapter 5 Metal Ornaments Earbobs and Dangles Rings Beads Bells Arm Bands and Bracelets Lead Peace Medals Brass Tacks Pectorals and Crosses Hairplates Belt Disks and Drops Chain and Wire Religious Objects Buttons Miscellaneous German Silver Ornaments Indian Police Uniforms Selected Bibliography Index

Metal Weapons, Tools & Ornaments of the Teton Dakota Indians

Chadron, NE: Museum of the Fur Trade

A story about how animal skins were used for money before we had what we use now.

When Skins Were Money: A History of the Fur Trade

Museum of the Fur Trade

Firearms of the Fur Trade: The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods, Vol. 1

Reference

Encyclopedia of Trade Goods, Volume 2: Gun Accessories & Hand Weapons of the Fur Trade

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