Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry - Hardcover

Cohen, Benjamin J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691167850 ISBN 13: 9780691167855

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2015

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"The ideas are clearly explained and speak directly to a broad spectrum of the existing international political economy literature."--Choice "This analytic complexity makes Currency Power an important contribution to our understanding of financial statecraft. This is not only the first comprehensive treatment of currency power, it is likely to remain the best such treatment for years to come. As such, the book is necessary reading for everyone interested in whether the dollar will remain at the top of the global currency pyramid as well as why retaining that status matters."--Thomas Oatley, Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and power, and what does it portend for the geopolitical standing of the United States, Europe, and China? Popular opinion holds that the days of the dollar, long the world's dominant currency, are numbered. By contrast, Currency Power argues that the current monetary rivalry still greatly favors America's greenback. Benjamin Cohen shows why neither the euro nor the yuan will supplant the dollar at the top of the global currency hierarchy. Cohen presents an innovative analysis of currency power and emphasizes the importance of separating out the various roles that international money might have. After systematically exploring the links between currency internationalization and state power, Cohen turns to the state of play among today's top currencies. The greenback, he contends, is the "indispensable currency"--the one that the world can't do without. Only the dollar is backed by all the economic and political resources that make a currency powerful. Meanwhile, the euro is severely handicapped by structural defects in the design of its governance mechanisms, and the yuan suffers from various practical limitations in both finance and politics. Contrary to today's growing opinion, Currency Power demonstrates that the dollar will continue to be the leading global currency for some time to come.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0691167850
• ISBN 13: 9780691167855
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304