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My own book title is explicitly an homage to this book, which tells the story of the sterling standard in its heyday.
It is my dream that readers will put my book next to this one on their bookshelves, reading mine as a continuation of the story that DeCecco tells so masterfully. He is more economic historian, and I am more historian of economic ideas, so the books are different (and his original was in Italian), but they can be read as in conversation with one another.
This is another book that I look forward to rereading, now that I…
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