Merhling Quoted on Charles Kindleberger & Global Economic Order
Perry Mehrling, Professor of International Political Economy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was interviewed for a New York Times op-ed in which he discusses economist Charles Kindleberger, the global dollar system, as well as his latest book.
The article, titled “The Economist Who Foresaw Our Global Economic Order,” explores Kindleberger’s one-money philosophy, how the world today has approached his vision, and the findings of Mehrling’s recently published book Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System. In his comments, Mehrling talks about Kindleberger himself, his goal “to get the economic boost of imperialism, but without the political and social downside of actual imperialism,” as well as the current state of the Federal Reserve and global economic conditions.
The full article can be read on the New York Times’ website.
Perry Mehrling is a Professor of International Political Economy at the Pardee School and teaches courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and international money. He is the author of The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the dealer of last resort (Princeton 2011), Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Wiley 2005), and The Money Interest and the Public Interest (Harvard 1997). For more about Professor Mehrling, visit his Pardee School faculty profile or his personal website.