Money and Empire

Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System

Perry Mehrling (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-15859-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Perry Mehrling is Professor of International Political Economy at Boston University.

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Intellectual Formation, 1910–1948; 1. Golden boy; 2. Columbia; 3. Hot money; 4. A good war; Part II. International Economist, 1948–1976; 5. Tech; 6. The dollar system; 7. Among economists; Part III. Historical Economist, 1976–2003; 8. Independence; 9. Chef d'oeuvre; 10. Leadership.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in New Economic Thinking
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-009-15859-7 / 1009158597
ISBN-13	978-1-009-15859-6 / 9781009158596
Zustand	Neuware