Benjamin Jerry 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 had been a member of the faculty at Tufts University since 1971 and 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.
The Americans are being positivists and attempting to develop intermediate level theories that are supported by some form of quantitative evidence.
In Geography and the Future of money, Cohen began with what Susan Strange had begun: the currency pyramid.
Only the dollar still reigns supreme, the euro is an not unleashed power having failed the ambition of their creators.
The internationalization of the euro and the yuan had as purpose to diminish the power of the dollar in the international monetary system.