The Idea of a Universal Currency

• Currency Tower of Babel?

• The universal currency set up by Julius Caesar

• Dante’s flirtation with Henry VII

• Gasparo Scaruffi (1519-1584)

• John Stuart Mill middle 19th century

• 19th century world currency conferences

• The Bimetallic League

• Fisher-Keynes tabular standard

• Keynes’ Means to Prosperity

• Keynes’ bancor, White’s unitas

• IMF Special Drawing Rights, 1968, 1st Amend. to AOA

• Mundell’s Intor (US Joint Econ Committee, 1968)

• Volcker. ‘The global economy needs a global currency.’