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  • Currency Power

    Understanding Monetary Rivalry

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Why the dollar will remain the world's most powerful currencyMonetary 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 ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Currency Statecraft

    Monetary Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    At any given time, a limited number of national currencies are used as instruments of international commerce, to settle foreign trade transactions or store value for investors and central banks. How countries whose currencies gain international appeal choose to use this status forms their strategy of currency statecraft. In different circumstances, issuing governments may welcome and promote the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Dream States

    A Lurking Nightmare for World Order

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Around the world, numerous communities seek the protections of sovereignty--a "dream state" of their own--to preserve their traditional way of life. However, these secessionist movements create risk of prolonged conflict in countries of every size and location, from tiny statelets in the Caribbean or Pacific to large and fragile multiethnic federations like Russia, India, and even the United ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • International Political Economy

    An Intellectual History

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's development, the contrasting ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy

    Second Edition

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Acclaim for previous edition:'Benjamin J. Cohen's Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy evaluates the fragmented intellectual landscape of international political economy and suggests points of convergence, if not integration, among its varied elements. His analysis is wide-ranging and balanced, geographically and in its examination of a variety of standpoints; it is engaging in ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Future of Global Currency

    The Euro Versus the Dollar

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Can the euro challenge the supremacy of the U.S. dollar as a global currency? From the time Europe’s joint money was born, many have predicted that it would soon achieve parity with the dollar or possibly even surpass it. In reality, however, the euro has remained firmly planted in the dollar’s shadow. The essays collected in this volume explain why. Because of America’s external deficits and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Lucky Jerry

    The Life of a Political Economist

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    No one has ever called Benjamin Jerry Cohen “Lucky Jerry.” Yet when he looks in the mirror, he sees a very lucky person.In a fascinating and often amusing recounting of his life, Cohen describes how a first-generation offspring of penniless immigrants, a mischievous student and chubby teenager, eventually attained an Ivy League education and won several prestigious university appointments while ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • International Political Economy

    Edited by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Series series The Library of Essays in International Relations
    Prior to the 1970s, few serious efforts were made to bridge the gap between economics and political science in the study of international relations. Systematic scholarly analysis of International Political Economy (IPE), emphasizing formal integration of elements of orthodox market and political analysis, is really of very recent origin. This volume brings together some of the most important ... Read more

    $580.00 USD

  • Power in a Changing World Economy

    Lessons from East Asia

    Edited by Benjamin J. Cohen, Eric M.P. Chiu ...
    This book is about power in a changing world economy. Though power is ubiquitous in the study of International Political Economy, the concept is underdeveloped in formal theoretical terms. This collection of essays analyses recent experience in East Asia to advance our theoretic understanding of state power in IPE. Over the last quarter century, no other region of the world has had a greater ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Global Monetary Governance

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Benjamin J. Cohen has been one of the most original and influential writers on international political economy. This book provides an overview of his contribution to the field, grouped around the central theme of global monetary governance. The book is divided into three sections:challenges to systemic governance - examines the challenge of governa ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Worlds Apart

    Measuring International and Global Inequality

    by Branko Milanovic ...
    We are used to thinking about inequality within countries--about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance. But what about inequality between all citizens of the world? Worlds Apart addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that inequality is shaped by complex forces often working in different directions. Branko Milanovic, a top World Bank economist, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Politics in the New Hard Times

    The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Miles Kahler, David A. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. Politics in the New Hard Times is the first book to focus on ... Read more

    $27.89 USD