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Money as Empire? | Herman Mark Schwartz

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On Perry Mehrling’s “Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System”

Money as Empire? - Herman Mark Schwartz Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System By Perry Mehrling Cambridge University Press, 2022 Money makes the world go round, or as Karl Marx put it, Geldgespräche, Quatsch-Spaziergänge. How does this work at the global or international level? Perry Mehrling’s elegantly written biography of the MIT economist Charles Poor Kindleberger illuminates the relationship between money and the global structure of economic and political power. Kindleberger, a distinguished economic historian, was in many ways, and to his own surprise, a central

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