Social construction and the logic of money : financial predominance and international economic leadership / J. Samuel Barkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barkin, J. Samuel, 1965-

Series:

SUNY series in global politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance--History.

Finance.

International economic relations--History.

International economic relations.

Money--History.

Money.

Leadership--History.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While other studies of international leadership have looked at a variety of measures to predict behavior, this book demonstrates that the key factor is international finance. J. Samuel Barkin uses an innovative blend of rationalist and constructivist methodologies, approaches to international political economy that normally exist in isolation from one another. Barkin argues that the level of a country's involvement in international finance specifically motivates it to lead. This is particularly relevant today, given the on-going discussions on how to respond to local and global financial crises. Barkin illustrates his theory with an episodic history of international monetary leadership over the last four centuries: Dutch leadership in the seventeenth century; British leadership in the nineteenth; the failure of leadership in the interwar era and Great Depression; and the role of the U.S. in the construction of an international economic infrastructure since World War II.

Contents:

Financial predominance and international economic leadership

Social construction and the logic of money

The seventeenth century and Dutch leadership

The nineteenth century and British leadership

The interwar period and the great depression

The postwar period : American leadership?

Conclusions and implications.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.

ISBN:

9780791487556

0791487555

9781417519293

1417519290

OCLC:

61367635