Money, markets, and sovereignty /
Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
- 288 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
"A Council on Foreign Relations book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-275) and index.
Thinking about money and globalization -- A brief history of law and globalism -- The anti-philosophy of anti-globalism -- A brief history of monetary sovereignty -- Globalization and monetary sovereignty -- Monetary sovereignty and gold -- The future of the dollar -- The shifting sands of sovereignty.
The authors present a fascinating intellectual history of monetary nationalism from the ancient world to the present and explore why, in its modern incarnation, it represents the single greatest threat to globalisation