Globalizing Capital

<p><b>Essential reading for understanding the international economy--now thoroughly updated</b> <p/>Lucid accessible and provocative and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have shaken the global economy <i>Globalizing Capital</i> 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 <i>Globalizing Capital </i>is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand where the international economy has been--and where it may be going.</p>