
Money, Markets, and Sovereignty
Yale University Press
Published on 1. March 2009
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-300-14924-1 (ISBN)
Description
In this keenly argued book, Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds offer the most powerful defence of economic liberalism since F. A. Hayek published "The Road to Serfdom" more than sixty years ago. The authors present a fascinating intellectual history of monetary nationalism from the ancient world to the present and explore why, in its modern incarnation, it represents the single greatest threat to globalization. Steil and Hinds describe the current state of international economic relations as both unusual and precarious. Eras of economic protectionism have historically coincided with monetary nationalism, while eras of liberal trade have been accompanied by a universal monetary standard. But today, the authors show, an unprecedentedly liberal global trade regime operates side by side with the most extreme doctrine of monetary nationalism ever contrived - a situation bound to trigger periodic crises.Steil and Hinds call for a revival of the political and economic thinking that underlay earlier great periods of globalization, and which is increasingly under threat by more recent ideas about what sovereignty means.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 black-&-white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-300-14924-1 (9780300149241)
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Benn Steil | Manuel Hinds
Money, Markets, and Sovereignty
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04/2009
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Yale University Press
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Persons
Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics, Council on Foreign Relations, and founding editor of the journal International Finance. He is the author of Financial Statecraft, published by Yale University Press. Manuel Hinds is a business and government consultant and former fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. He has twice served as minister of finance in El Salvador. He is the author of Playing Monopoly with the Devil, published by Yale University Press.