Money And Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger And T... Link

His tenure at MIT, where he wrote the standard textbook on international economics and fought intellectual battles against both Monetarists and Keynesians.

According to reviewers at Cambridge University Press , the book captures three distinct phases of Kindleberger's career: Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and t...

Mehrling highlights Kindleberger’s belief that the world is an "optimal currency area" where trade works best under a single currency—the U.S. dollar—rather than through international agreements or flexible exchange rates. His tenure at MIT, where he wrote the

In , Perry Mehrling provides an intellectual biography that doubles as a "biography of the dollar". The book traces the life and career of Charles P. Kindleberger (1910–2003), a former MIT economist and policymaker whose work defined the architecture of the modern international monetary system . Core Themes and Key Arguments His tenure at MIT