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

摘要

This slender and pleasant book is a story of the dollar in the world financial system, and an attempt at speculating on the future of the U.S. currency. The book is addressed to a readership that is clearly wider than the academic circles to which Barry Eichengreen is a well-known contributor, and blends historical record, economic analysis, as well as interesting details on the characters that have filled the world financial drama in the past century and a half. Given the potential readership of the book, our author dispenses of algebra altogether and uses only, in the entire volume, a handful of graphs.