Books [Draft File]

This is a safe space for collecting items that may eventually go into a Book Roundup post.

Last Book Roundup was way back on April 25, 2024 and, well, much has happened since then. I promised then I'd drop the main section down to 20 books to try to get these out in a more timely manner, but if I do that now, it's going to take multiple posts just to deal with the leftovers from last year. But let's start with the obvious top priorities, and see where that gets us.

Kenneth Rogoff: Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead (2025, Yale University Press): On the history of the dollar, which through some combination of size and luck supplanted the British pound as the world's preferred reserve currency, an "exorbitant privilege" that comes with perks and burdens, and isn't bound to last, especially as greedy American politicians like Trump seek to abuse their powers.

A few more books briefly noted: