Lucid accessible and provocative and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have
shaken the global economy Globalizing Capital is an indispensable account of the past 150
years of international monetary and financial history--from the classical gold standard to
today's post-Bretton Woods nonsystem. Bringing the story up to the present this third edition
covers the global financial crisis the Greek bailout the Euro crisis the rise of China as a
global monetary power the renewed controversy over the international role of the U.S. dollar
and the currency war. Concise and nontechnical and with a proven appeal to general readers
students and specialists alike Globalizing Capital is a must-read for anyone who wants to
understand where the international economy has been--and where it may be going.
