Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Barry Eichengreen

T1AcademicsMoney, banking and monetary history

Economic historian of the international monetary system who has taught at Berkeley since 1987; research associate at the NBER and fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

University of California, Berkeley

Golden Fetters established the standard account of the interwar gold standard: fixed exchange rates transmitted deflation across borders, and recovery began in each country only after it left the peg. The later books apply that monetary-history method to reserve-currency status, the euro, sovereign debt capacity and the 2008 policy response.

6 books of their own · 20 articles · 42 appearances

Books 6Writing 20Appearances 42

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  1. Globalizing CapitalBarry Eichengreen, 1996
  2. Golden FettersBarry Eichengreen, 1992
  3. Exorbitant PrivilegeBarry Eichengreen, 2011
Globalizing CapitalGlobalizing Capital
T1 Globalizing Capital
Barry Eichengreen · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Money between nations from the gold standard to floating rates and the euro.

Golden FettersGolden Fetters
T1 Golden Fetters
Barry Eichengreen · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the gold standard spread the Depression, and why leaving it early meant recovery.

Exorbitant PrivilegeExorbitant Privilege
T1 Exorbitant Privilege
Barry Eichengreen · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the dollar became the world's currency, what it gives the US, what may follow.

Hall of MirrorsHall of Mirrors
T1 Hall of Mirrors
Barry Eichengreen · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How 1930s lessons guided policy in 2008, averting a depression but adding errors.

In Defense of Public DebtIn Defense of Public Debt
T1 In Defense of Public Debt
Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, Kris James Mitchener · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sovereign borrowing from Italian city-states to the pandemic, and what it paid for.

The Gold Standard in Theory and HistoryThe Gold Standard in Theory and History
T1 The Gold Standard in Theory and History
Barry Eichengreen, Marc Flandreau · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Key academic papers on how the gold standard worked and why it broke down.

Globalizing CapitalMoney between nations from the gold standard to floating rates and the euro.1996T1–
Golden FettersHow the gold standard spread the Depression, and why leaving it early meant recovery.1992T1–
Exorbitant PrivilegeHow the dollar became the world's currency, what it gives the US, what may follow.2011T1–
Hall of MirrorsHow 1930s lessons guided policy in 2008, averting a depression but adding errors.2015T1–
In Defense of Public DebtSovereign borrowing from Italian city-states to the pandemic, and what it paid for.2021T1–
The Gold Standard in Theory and HistoryKey academic papers on how the gold standard worked and why it broke down.1997T1–

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macrocurrenciesmonetary-historygold-standardexchange-ratesreserve-currencysovereign-debtfinancial-criseseuro