TY - BOOK AU - Eichengreen,Barry TI - Exorbitant Privilege: the rise and fall of the dollar and the future of the international monetary system SN - 9780199642472 U1 - 332.4973 PY - 2011/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Money KW - United States KW - History KW - Devaluation of currency KW - 21st century KW - Economic policy N1 - Includes index N2 - In Exorbitant Privilege, economic historian, Barry Eichengreen, traces the rise of the dollar to international prominence over the course of the 20th century. He shows that the greenback dominated internationally in the second half of the century for the same reasons and in the same way that the United States dominated the global economy. But now, America no longer towers over the global economy. It follows, ER -