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

According to reviewers at Cambridge University Press , the book captures three distinct phases of Kindleberger's career:

His retirement years, during which he wrote his best-known work, Manias, Panics, and Crashes , and his self-identified masterwork, A Financial History of Western Europe . 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. According to reviewers at Cambridge University Press ,