Pittaluga G.B. e Seghezza G. (2021), Building Trust in the International Monetary System. The Different Cases of Commodity Money and Fiat Money, Cham: Springer, pp. 264, ISBN: 9783030784911

[Autom. eng. transl.] This text by Pittaluga and Seghezza addresses a topic of extreme economic and political importance. It is, in fact, a historical and theoretical examination of the development of the international monetary system (IMS) from the dawn of the gold standard to today. A historical study of the development of money and of the monetary system appears all the more important in this turning point, in which, after decades of hyper-globalization, a phase of national retrenchement of production processes is being followed, also following the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, a dynamic that will necessarily have consequences for the SMI