Money and Empire(English, Hardcover, Mehrling Perry)

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Money and Empire(English, Hardcover, Mehrling Perry) is written by Mehrling Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009158570 (ISBN 10) and 9781009158572 (ISBN 13).

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.