“Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case.”

— Barry Eichengreen

Preface
Globalizing Capital (2008)

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