Benjamin Cohen (professor)

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Benjamin Cohen (born June 5, 1937 in Ossining, New York) is the Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At UCSB, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1991, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international political economy.

Cohen finished his undergraduate degree in 1959 and his doctorate degree in 1963, both in Economics from Columbia University.

From 1962 to 1964 Dr. Cohen was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

He 1964 to 1971 was an assistant professor in the Economics department at Princeton University.

Dr. Cohen was on the faculty of Tufts University since 1971. Until he joined the faculty at UCSB he was the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. His research interests mainly involve issues of international monetary and financial relations, and he has written about matters ranging from exchange rates and monetary integration to financial markets and international debt.

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Balance-of-Payments Policy (l969)

The Future of Sterling as an International Currency (l97l)

The Question of Imperialism: The Political Economy of Dominance and Dependence (l973)

Organizing the World's Money: The Political Economy of International Monetary Relations (1977)

The Geography of Money (1998)

The Future of Money (2004)

International Political Economy: An Intellectual History(2008)

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• [1] Dr. Cohen's faculty page at UC-Santa Barbara