Money Beyond Borders

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Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto

Barry Eichengreen

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Princeton University Press
17 March 2026

General & world history; International relations; Monetary economics; Economic history; Finance

A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar

as well as crypto and central bank digital currencies.

Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money Beyond Borders, the leading authority on international currencies, Barry Eichengreen, puts the dollar's prospects in deep historical perspective by chronicling the entire history of cross-border currencies, from the invention of coins in the seventh century BCE to the cryptocurrencies of today and the central bank digital currencies of tomorrow.

Money Beyond Borders recounts how Greek and Roman coins became the first true international currencies. It tells how the Florentine gold florin became the 'greenback of the Renaissance', and how it was succeeded by Spanish silver and a Dutch fiat currency. The book explains why the British pound dominated the international economy in the nineteenth century, why the dollar rose to the top during World War II, and why the dollar has survived predictions of the imminent loss of its preeminence since the 1970s.

The long history of international currencies shows that the same factors that encourage their widespread use eventually lead to their abandonment. Money Beyond Borders makes a powerful case that the dollar is now on the downside of this cycle, and it considers who the winners and losers will be when there is flight away from the greenback. Revealing important patterns in the life cycles of international currencies over the past 2,500 years, the book offers valuable lessons and insights about how currencies rise

and why they fall.

'A history of international currencies, spanning 2700 years, with huge relevance to the role of the US dollar today.'

Andrew Leigh MP

By: Barry Eichengreen
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780691280530
ISBN 10: 0691280533
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 17 March 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author and coauthor of many books, including Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System; How Global Currencies Work (Princeton); and Globalizing Capital (Princeton).

Reviews for Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto

""A learned and highly readable history of the making and breaking of international currencies. . . . a fine book.""---Brett Christophers, Financial Times