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Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case.

— Barry Eichengreen Globalizing Capital (2008)

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The international monetary system is the glue that binds national economies together.

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Neither the current state nor the future prospects of this evolving order can be understood without an appreciation of its history.

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Any account of the development of the international monetary system is also necessarily an account of the development of international capital markets.

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