Barry Eichengreen on the History of Global Currencies
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Barry Eichengreen on the History of Global Currencies
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Barry Eichengreen is well known author, economist, and economic historian from the University of California, Berkeley. In Barry's first appearance on the show he discusses a career in untangling the world's monetary history, the origins of his new book Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto, the first uses on currencies in the 7th Century BC, the unexpected start of the dollar, how we landed on the central bank model, the dollar's rise to global reserve currency, which if any currencies as poised to take on the dollar, and much more.
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Recorded on May 27th, 2026
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:17 - Barry's Books
00:10:14 - Money Beyond Borders
00:17:17 - Lydia and Greece
00:20:46 - Renaissance of Credits
00:23:36 - Spanish Silver
00:28:26 - The Emergence of Central Banks
00:38:11 - British Empire vs. Roman Empire
00:43:34 - Dollar as One of the Dominant Reserve Currencies
00:56:29 - Outro