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Money, Markets & Sovereignty
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Money, Markets & Sovereignty

Yale UP, 2009 Mehr

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Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Globalization remains always controversial, especially during a severe recession. Its philosophical, political and economic history is a complex tangle, but globalism’s current expression is even more complicated, weaving in everything from gold to monetary policy to nationalism. Council on Foreign Relations experts Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds have written a high-level, dense, but ultimately rewarding book for dedicated students of globalization. They contend that the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank faces a tough challenge managing the U.S. dollar as both a national and a global reserve currency. This book outweighs other popular texts on globalism in its scholarship, topic range and intellectual arguments. The authors make such a formidable case that critics will have to ratchet up their rebuttals dramatically. getAbstract highly recommends this work to policy makers and executives involved in globalization, but note: The book presumes more than a passing acquaintance with economic theory.

Take-Aways

  • Globalism – the belief that the exchange of goods, services and ideas is a net positive for humanity – is an ancient notion that predates nation-states.
  • Civilization first coined money about 2,500 years ago as a medium of exchange.
  • From the time of the Stoics, who incorporated business into their philosophy, commerce has driven law and society.

About the Authors

Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Manuel Hinds, the author of Playing Monopoly with the Devil, served two terms as El Salvador’s minister of finance.


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