The importance of the international monetary system is clearly evident in daily news stories about fluctuating currencies and in dramatic events such as the recent reversals in the Mexican economy. It has become increasingly apparent that one cannot understand the international economy without knowing how its monetary system operates. Now Barry Eichengreen presents a brief, luc...(展开全部)

First published more than a decade ago, "Globalizing Capital" remains an indispensable part of the economic literature today. Written by renowned economist Barry Eichengreen, this classic book emphasizes the importance of the international monetary system for understanding the international economy. Brief and lucid, "Globalizing Capital" is intended not only for economists, but...(展开全部)

For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. The dollar holdings of the Chinese government alone come to more than $1,000 per Chinese resident. This depend...(展开全部)

Most economists and political scientists assume that efficiency, the invisible hand, is the preeminent factor in monetary decisions; questions of power and the role it plays in monetary policy are largely neglected. This pathbreaking book redirects attention to monetary power and provides an original framework for assessing its role in relations between sovereign states. At pre...(展开全部)

马克·特拉亨伯格（Marc Trachtenberg） 知名国际关系史学家，1974年在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校取得博士学位，曾在耶鲁大学、宾夕法尼亚大学、哥伦比亚大学任教，现任教于加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校。著有《建构的和平：1945—1963年欧洲协议的形成》（A C onstructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963），该书获得美国历史学会两项学术奖项，《冷战和冷战结束之后：国际政治的历史、理论和逻辑》（The Cold War and After: History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics）

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian Patrick Manning traces how this Human System evolved from Homo sapiens’ beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization – the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today’s newly globa...(展开全部)

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly glob...(展开全部)

LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history. And having risen from the rubble of the Blitz, i...(展开全部)

作者简介 西蒙•詹金斯（Simon Jenkins）爵士，生于1943年，毕业于牛津大学，英国历史学家、评论家、专栏作家、畅销书作家。他曾出版近20部著作，内容涵盖历史、政治、建筑等。他也是英国***的记者之一，为《卫报》《泰晤士报》（The Times）、《标准晚报》（London Evening Standard）、《金融时报》（Financial Times）等撰写专栏。他曾担任多份公职，包括英格兰遗产委员会副主席、英国国家信托基金的主席。 译者简介 宋佳，毕业于英国杜伦大学，翻译研究专业硕士，英国皇家特许语言家协会（CIOL）认证翻译。多次在中英政府、商界等研讨交流活动中，负责口笔译工作。在伦敦工作生活多年，曾任英国彼得森律师行（Peterson Law Associates）事务翻译，英国酷锐传媒（Creative Time Media）新...(展开全部)

Writing in the June 1965 issue of the "Economic Journal", Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: 'The long-awaited "Monetary History of the United States" by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement - monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitivene...(展开全部)