Episode
Barry Eichengreen on the History of Global Currencies
Macro Musings with David Beckworth · Jul 6, 2026 · 57 min
Barry Eichengreen is a well known author, economist, and economic historian from the University of California, Berkeley. In Barry's first appearance on the show he discusses a career in untangling the world's monetary history, the origins of his new book Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto , the first uses on currencies in the 7 th Century BC, the unexpected start of…