Perry Mehrling, Money and Empire. Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022

Charles P. Kindleberger (1910-2003) has been one of the most eminent international and historical economists of the XX century. In our country his name is associated to some important monographs such as Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, published at first in 1978; A Financial History of Western Europe, published in 1984; and World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990, published in 1996. Actually, during his life Charles P. Kindleberger wore three different hats: the one of central banker, the one of international economist and finally the one of historical economist. And this is exactly the perspective adopted by Perry Mehrling, Professor of Economics at Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, to outline the complex biography of this peculiar scholar