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The Making of National Money - by Eric Helleiner (Hardcover)

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  • Why should each country have its own exclusive currency?
  • About the Author: Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.
  • 296 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Economic Conditions

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Why should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique perspective on this question in his accessible history of the origins of national money. Our contemporary understandings of national currency...



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Why should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique perspective on this question in his accessible history of the origins of national money. Our contemporary understandings of national currency are, Helleiner shows, surprisingly recent. Based on standardized technologies of production and extraction, territorially exclusive national currencies emerged for the first time only during the nineteenth century. This major change involved a narrow definition of legal tender and the exclusion of tokens of value issued outside the national territory. "Territorial currencies" rapidly became bound up with the rise of national markets, and money reflected basic questions of national identity and self-presentation: In what way should money be managed to serve national goals? Whose pictures should go on the banknotes? Helleiner draws out the potent implications of this largely unknown history for today's context. Territorial currencies face challenges from many monetary innovations--the creation of the euro, dollarization, the spread of local currencies, and the prospect of privately issued electronic currencies. While these challenges are dramatic, the author argues that their significance should not be overstated. Even in their short historical life, territorial currencies have never been as dominant as conventional wisdom suggests. The future of this kind of currency, Helleiner contends, depends on political struggles across the globe, struggles that echo those at the birth of national money.



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Historians reading Helleiner's book should recognize that its true value lies less in its historical detail... than in its remarkable synthesis of a global phenomenon.... Historians would do well to use it as a guide to future research. Indeed, this overview should spark renewed interest in the history of money, particularly the relation between political and monetary systems. As a field, it is wide open for inquiry, and should it ever get the attention it deserves, Helleiner will deserve no small share of the credit.

--Stephen Mihm "Business History Review"

The work is a history of thought as much as a history, and the two themes are cleverly welded together.... In refreshing contrast to the tendency of economic historians to concentrate on the Anglo-Saxon or European experience, much attention is given to other areas of the world: Japan, China, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

--Lawrence H. Officer, University of Illinois "EH.NET Reviews"

This book, which is well-written and persuasively argued, will be of interest to students and scholars of international political economy and international relations and to others interested in economic history and the historical roots of globalization.

--Timothy B. Gravelle, University of Toronto "Political Studies Review"

This is an excellent book that deserves a wide audience of international relations scholars, economists, and policymakers: It is ambitious, intelligent, insightful, learned, thorough, and gracefully written. The Making of National Money will soon be required reading for students of international political economy, as is Eric Helleiner's States and the Reemergence of Global Finance.

--Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School "Perspectives on Politics"

This work is pathbreaking for its theoretical, historical, and policy insights, and--as a result of this originality--raises new issues for theorists, researchers, and policymakers.... The Making of National Money makes an undeniably important contribution to historical, policy, and theoretical debates, and is essential for anyone interested in international relations, comparative economic institutions, or the international political economy.

--Wesley W. Widmaier, St. Joseph's University "Comparative Political Studies"

When did money become national, and why? These are the questions that Helleiner addresses in a wide-ranging and immaculately detailed monetary history.... Helleiner succeeds admirably in enriching our historical understanding of money's multiple functions in political economy. The study of money, he makes clear, is too important to be left to the economists alone.

--Benjamin J. Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara "Journal of Interdisciplinary History"



About the Author



Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. His previous books include States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s, also from Cornell.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.82 Inches (H) x 6.74 Inches (W) x .93 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.34 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 296
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Economic Conditions
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Eric Helleiner
Language: English
Street Date: November 29, 2002
TCIN: 94313519
UPC: 9780801440496
Item Number (DPCI): 247-19-3264
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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