Description
| Product ID: | 9781009158572 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Studies in New Economic Thinking |
| Title: | Money and Empire |
| Subtitle: | Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System |
| Authors: | Author: Perry Mehrling |
| Page Count: | 310 |
| Subjects: | Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A history of international finance as seen through the eyes of Charles P. Kindleberger, one of its keenest observers. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-04 |
