His early career at the New York Fed, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and his wartime role in the OSS and the Marshall Plan.

His retirement years, during which he wrote his best-known work, Manias, Panics, and Crashes , and his self-identified masterwork, A Financial History of Western Europe .

In , Perry Mehrling provides an intellectual biography that doubles as a "biography of the dollar". The book traces the life and career of Charles P. Kindleberger (1910–2003), a former MIT economist and policymaker whose work defined the architecture of the modern international monetary system . Core Themes and Key Arguments

According to reviewers at Cambridge University Press , the book captures three distinct phases of Kindleberger's career: