 | The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective Why should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique perspective on this question in his accessible history of the origins of national money. Our contemporary understandings of national currency... Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. His previous books include States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s , also from Cornell. |
