Central Banks and Gold: How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World

by Mark Metzler and Simon James Bytheway

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. In Central Banks and Gold, Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler explore how this financialized form of globalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150170494X
• ISBN13: 9781501704949
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher