Future of the US Dollar

Project Members: Eric Helleiner

The first set of papers examined the future of the US dollar from the perspective of other countries. Revised versions of some of these papers were published in a special issue of the Review of International Political Economy, the leading journal in the field of International Political Economy. This issue was edited by Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner.

The second stage of the project involves a different group of scholars. Their contributions will be published in a book titled The Future of the Dollar. The book has been accepted by Cornell University Press and will appear in 2009. David Calleo, Marcelllo De Cecco, Benjamin Cohen, Eric Helleiner, Harold James, Jonathan Kirshner, Ronald McKinnon and Herman Schwartz have contributed to the book. The volume is edited by Jonathan Kirshner and CIGI’s Eric Helleiner.

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