Dollar displacement

A good academic paper is like an ancient Hindu spiritual text. The more you read it, the more it reveals hitherto unexplored dimensions. I would put Ronald McKinnon’s The Rules of the Game: International Money in Historical Perspective, published in 1993, in that category. It captures both the written and the mostly unwritten rules under which the various international exchange rate regimes—Bretton Woods onwards—were expected to operate.

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