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

Name: Exorbitant Privilege The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
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ISBN: 9780199931095

ISBN-10: 0199931097

ISBN-13: 9780199931095

Edition: 2012

Authors: Barry Eichengreen

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InExorbitant Privilege, one of the world's foremost economists, Barry Eichengreen, traces the historical rise of the dollar to international prominence. He shows how the greenback dominated internationally in the second half of the twentieth century for the same reasons that the United States dominated the global economy. But now, with the rise of China, and other emerging economies, America no longer towers over the global economy. It follows, Eichengreen argues, that the dollar will not be as dominant. But this does not mean that the coming changes will necessarily be sudden and dire--or that the dollar is doomed to lose its international status. Challenging the presumption that there is…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Capital Flows and Crises (MIT Press, 2002) and other books.




Introduction



Debut



Dominance



Rivalry



Crisis



Monopoly No More



Dollar Crash


Afterword


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index