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Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System

By Perry Mehrling

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781009158572, 9781009158589, 2021056132, 2021056133
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2498303 bytes)
Pages
321\322
Topic
Economy
Time added
2022-10-13 12:08:13

Description

Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' approach to the rise of the dollar system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic development since World War II. Unlike most of his colleagues, Kindleberger was deeply interested in history, and his economics brimmed with real people and institutional details. His research at the New York Fed and BIS during the Great Depression, his wartime intelligence work, and his role in administering the Marshall Plan gave him deep insight into how the international financial system really operated. A biography of both the dollar and a man, this book is also the story of the development of ideas about how money works. It throws revealing light on the underlying economic forces and political obstacles shaping our globalized world.

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