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...James Vestal Dollar and Yen: Resolving Economic Conflict Between the United States and Japan . By Ronald I. McKinnon and Kenichi Ohno . Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press , 1997 . x, 266 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 888 THE JOURNAL...

...Liang-Yen Chow Dollars Dependents and Dogma: Overseas Chinese Remittances to Communist China . By Chun-hsi Wu . Stanford, California : The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace , 1967 . xii, 229 pp. Index, Notes, Appendices, Figures, Charts, Tables. $7.00. Copyright ©...

... disproportionately to buildings in metropolitan Manila. The outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines and its military arm the New People's Army have gained strength and confronted the Philippine Army in many provinces. The American dollar, which was strong in the period immediately after World War II, has become...

... to exploit this vulnerability grew with the 1937 rediscovery of Section 5(b) of the 1917 Trading with the Enemy Act, which empowered the United States to “paralyze dollars owned by foreign countries,” even as Japan became devastatingly reliant on U.S. trade and dollars (p. 3). In 1928, Japan's oil production...

... memories and relations are honored, reenacted, and extended. While earlier forms of remittances included hard-to-procure goods and medicines, often with dollars hidden in crevices within, Small describes how, over time, remittances have settled into their preferred form as wire transfers. Such gifts enact...

... weight-for-weight, purity-for-purity, with Mexican silver dollars then the Mexican dollars should circulate side by side with Japanese coins in the market. This may seem unreasonable by modern standards, but since Mexican dollars were the standard currency of the China Seas, and were even 1 R. Alcock...

... under the pressure of increased government borrowing; an influx of foreign capital attracted by the high interest rates; a rise in the exchange value of the dollar under strong demand for dollar funds by foreigners; and an international trade deficit because the strong dollar made foreign goods cheaper...

... households as sites for production and consumption that constitute families and shape members’ obligations. In chapter 3, Truitt analyzes the relationship between the đồng, U.S. dollars, and gold. Dollarization might be an economically rational alternative to inflation-prone domestic currency, but Truitt...

... how this squares with the previous argument. Lastly, Petri argues that Korean exports are protection-prone, because their composition follows that of Japan, as well as Korea's own history of intervention, and its tendency toward a highly imbalanced triangular pattern of trade. David Dollar and Kenneth...

... Thus, while providing a captive market for its agricultural producers, the United States protected its textile industry from import competition. As a result of difficulty in finding other dollar markets, however, the prohibition against sale of Japanese cotton textiles in the United States was dropped...

..., force one to question whether Dollar and Sokoloff have made the final statement on the subject. These three estimate TFP in a more sophisticated way than employed in the Dollar and Sokoloff paper, and obtain similar estimates of TFP which differ considerably from those reported by Dollar and Sokoloff...

... E N N I S J . E N C A R N A T I O N . New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. xvi, 222 pp. For years now, the U.S. has been running a billion-dollar-a-week merchandise trade deficit with Japan. The conventional wisdom is that a deficit of this scale cannot be sustained and "something" should...

... will of the IMF and the United States in resolving actual crises” (p. 4). Grimes is often rather diplomatic and indirect in saying this, and he identifies the well known pathologies of the US dollar/IMF system in an abstract way that may not be clear to those new to the subject. Here, R. Taggart Murphy's now...

... with the international humanitarian response to marketize and dollarize the centrally managed economy. Unmentioned is Kim Il Sung s sanctioning in the 1960s of marketization during periods of economic hardship. An underlying assumption is that change is irreversible. Markets expanded in size and number in winter...

... the government's financial capacity. For the Nanking period as a whole, approximately one-fourth of national expenditures were supported by borrowing. Borrowing 'A general evaluation of statistical materials used in this study appears in Appendix A. 4 All figures are in terms of Chinese national currency dollars...

... that a fairly set rate of discount was being figured on by the members. A special need for money such as a wedding or a funeral in the family might TABLE I Year Meetings Low Bid Received Paid In' Amt. Reed. Cash % Amt. Pd. Per Dollar 1917 1 4,000 120,000 120,000 100.0 1,207.4 2 2,200 67,800 120,000 56.5 1918 3...

... versusJapan in Global Competition. By D E N N I S J . E N C A R N A T I O N . New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. xvi, 222 pp. For years now, the U.S. has been running a billion-dollar-a-week merchandise trade deficit with Japan. The conventional wisdom is that a deficit of this scale cannot...

... deterrence. As Cha points out, the North Korean military packs a highly destructive power even with conventional force alone that if used would in ict one million casualties and one trillion dollars in economic loss. Why did that capability lose its deterrent effect in the 1990s? Why does the North s...

... in the South lost to British Malaya. Further, Thailand demonstrated that it was no longer willing to be a quasi-colony of Britain; it was no longer content to be a wholesale supplier of tin, rubber, and rice to British-Malay middlemen who parlayed Thai resources into American dollars. The first chapter...