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  • Money Beyond Borders

    Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto

    A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar—as well as crypto and central bank digital currenciesDoubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money Beyond Borders, the ... Read more

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  • Hall of Mirrors

    The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History

    The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac arrest in 2008, policymakers invoked the lessons of the Great Depression in attempting to avert ... Read more

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  • Globalizing Capital

    A History of the International Monetary System - Third Edition

    Essential reading for understanding the international economy—now thoroughly updatedLucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have shaken the global economy, Globalizing Capital is an indispensable account of the past 150 years of international monetary and financial history—from the classical gold standard to today's post–Bretton Woods "nonsystem." ... Read more

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  • The Populist Temptation

    Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era

    Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached its apogee in the United States with the election of Trump, but it was a force in Europe ever since the Great Recession sent the European economy into a prolonged tailspin. In the simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies economic and political elites and instead lionizes 'the ... Read more

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  • Exorbitant Privilege:The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

    The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

    For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. The dollar holdings of the Chinese government alone come to more than $1,000 per Chinese resident. This dependence on dollars, by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Golden Fetters

    The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

    Series series NBER Series on Long-term Factors in Economic Development
    This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave ... Read more

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  • Reconstructing Europe's Trade and Payments

    The European Payments Union

    Series series Studies In International Economics
    This title was formally part of the Studies in International Trade Policy Series, now called Studies in International Economics. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Exorbitant Privilege

    The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

    For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. The dollar holdings of the Chinese government alone come to more than $1,000 per Chinese resident. This dependence on dollars, by ... Read more

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  • Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

    Series series Cairoli Lectures
    Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the argument that today's international financial system is largely analogous to the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Hall of Mirrors

    The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History

    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 2 min

    The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. Pain and suffering were widespread.The question, given this, is why didn't policymakers do better? Hall of Mirrors, Barry ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Populist Temptation

    Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era

    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 37 min

    In The Populist Temptation, the eminent economic historian Barry Eichengreen focuses on the global resurgence of populism today and places it in a deep context. Alternating between the present and earlier populist waves from modern history, he argues that populists tend to thrive most in the wake of economic downturns, when it is easy to convince the masses of elite malfeasance. Yet while there is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Golden Fetters : The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

    The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

    Series series NBER Series on Long-term Factors in Economic Development
    This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave ... Read more

    $52.99 USD