On Perry Mehrling’s “Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System” by Herman Mark Schwartz Perry Mehrling’s elegantly written biography of t

On Perry Mehrling’s “Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System” by Herman Mark Schwartz Perry Mehrling’s elegantly written biography of the MIT economist Charles Poor Kindleberger illuminates the relationship between money and the global structure of economic and political power. Kindleberger, a distinguished economic historian, was in many ways, and to his own surprise, a central and founding figure in the political science subfield of International Political Economy (IPE).