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His early career at the New York Fed, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and his wartime role in the OSS and the Marshall Plan.

In , Perry Mehrling provides an intellectual biography that doubles as a "biography of the dollar". The book traces the life and career of Charles P. Kindleberger (1910–2003), a former MIT economist and policymaker whose work defined the architecture of the modern international monetary system . Core Themes and Key Arguments Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and t...

Kindleberger viewed the U.S. role not as one of exploitation but of necessary leadership to provide "international public goods," such as global financial stability and crisis management. Kindleberger’s Three "Lives" His early career at the New York Fed,

The central narrative explores how the global economy transitioned from the British pound sterling system to the American dollar-led system. the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

According to reviewers at Cambridge University Press , the book captures three distinct phases of Kindleberger's career: