"Dollarization as a policy idea is much more discussed than tested. Manuel Hinds has helped put it to the test in El Salvador with some impressive results. This book makes a powerful argument: It should be read by all who wish to act or opine on the critical question of whether one country, one currency is right for the twenty-first ... Read morecentury."—Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and president of Harvard University
Lawrence Summers “In this remarkably lucid and fun book, Manuel Hinds explodes any remaining myths about the need for most countries to maintain their own currencies.  For a watertight explanation of how and why dollarization makes eminent sense, one couldn’t do better than read this book.”—Robert Litan, Vice President for Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and co-author of Financial Statecraft 
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