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Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry
Benjamin J Cohen
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Description for Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: KCBM; KCL; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and power, and what does it portend for the geopolitical standing of the United States, Europe, and China? Popular opinion holds that the days of the dollar, long the world's dominant currency, are numbered. By contrast, Currency Power argues that the current monetary rivalry still greatly favors America's greenback. Benjamin Cohen shows why ... Read more
Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and power, and what does it portend for the geopolitical standing of the United States, Europe, and China? Popular opinion holds that the days of the dollar, long the world's dominant currency, are numbered. By contrast, Currency Power argues that the current monetary rivalry still greatly favors America's greenback. Benjamin Cohen shows why ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
568g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691167855
SKU
V9780691167855
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About Benjamin J Cohen
Benjamin J. Cohen is the Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His many books include The Future of Money and International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (both Princeton).
Reviews for Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry
The ideas are clearly explained and speak directly to a broad spectrum of the existing international political economy literature.
Choice This analytic complexity makes Currency Power an important contribution to our understanding of financial statecraft. This is not only the first comprehensive treatment of currency power, it is likely to remain the best such treatment for years to come. ... Read more
Choice This analytic complexity makes Currency Power an important contribution to our understanding of financial statecraft. This is not only the first comprehensive treatment of currency power, it is likely to remain the best such treatment for years to come. ... Read more