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  "title": "Currency and Power with Benjamin Cohen",
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  "summary": "Depth of US financial market makes US dollar attractive to investors around the world (BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS/Newscom).",
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      "content": "- Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy, according to Benjamin Cohen, Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California.\n- Explanation of why currencies become internationalized.\n- Examination of the relationship between world currencies and State power."
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      "content": "- Monetary rivalry exists among major currencies and shapes global economic relations.\n- Currencies become internationalized through processes discussed by Benjamin Cohen in his work Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry.\n- The international status of a currency is linked to the political and economic power of the State issuing it."
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      "content": "- Benjamin Cohen — Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California; author of Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry.\n- Bruce Edwards — Produces the IMF podcast program; described as an award-winning audio producer and journalist who has covered armed conflicts, social unrest, and natural disasters from all corners of the world; believes economists have an important role in solving the world's problems and aspires to showcase their research in every IMF podcast.\n- Rhoda Metcalfe — Independent journalist and audio producer."
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      "content": "- Publication date: July 26, 2016."
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