Lucid, 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.
"One of the major books on the history of the International Monetary System."
---Ivo Maes, Journal of European Integration History"An invaluable guide for anyone who wants to understand money."
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coauthor of
How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future and the author of
The European Economy since 1945 (both Princeton).