Speaker: Professor Barry Eichengreen
This event was recorded on 22 March 2011 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
The dollar, the world's international reserve currency for over eighty years, has been a pillar of American economic hegemony. In the words of one critic, the dollar possessed an "exorbitant privilege" in international finance that reinforced U.S. economic power. In Exorbitant Privilege, eminent economist Barry Eichengreen explains how the dollar rose to the top of the monetary order before turning to the current situation. Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Political Science and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
@jrm21386 The Euro Will not exist in 10 years, not be a major currency.
melnick1985 2 months ago
@capricioussole The Euro Will not exist in 10 years, not be a major currency.
melnick1985 2 months ago
And besides, political domination, requires the maintenance of economic control, should the dollar fall as world reserve currency, relative and absolute measures of political power, thus control will accelerate in their decline, and being that there is no other market to replace the U.S. market, absolute measures of world power will decline as well.
capricioussole 8 months ago
Him saying the US only represents 20% of the world Economy isn't exactly correct. According to the World Bank, the US represents about 24% of the world Economy. It's almost a no-brainer that the US dollar is still the dominant currency. States will always access to the world largest market and to do that you need the worlds dominant currency to conduct transactions.
jrm21386 11 months ago