Perry Mehrling - Money and Empire
A Book with Legs
Smead Capital Management
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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In this episode, Cole and Bill are joined by Perry Mehrling, author of the book, Money and Empire. Mehrling’s work tracks the life of Charles P. Kindleberger, an international economist from the twentieth century, whose deep interest in history and economics fed his appetite to learn how the global financial system worked. The conversation covers Kindleberger’s background and upbringing, his experiences in the world of finance, and understanding the current dollar framework of the world.
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| 1:14.8 | We are going to discuss one of the leading economic historians the last 100 years and the |
| 1:19.6 | person that built up the framework of how we look at the dollar as the reserve currency today. |
| 1:24.2 | Perry Merling is joining us to talk about his recent book, Money and Empire, Charles P. |
| 1:28.1 | Kindleberger and the Dollar System. He has published three other books, money interest and public |
| 1:33.9 | interest in 1997. He then published Fisher Black and the Revolutioner Idea of Finance in 2005, |
| 1:39.7 | and his book prior to this was the New Lombard Street in 2011. He is a professor of economics at the |
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