Economics (7th Edition) (What's New in Economics)
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Author: R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 30.A, Problem 15PA
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Changes in the exchange rate after the end of Bretton wood system.
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