Dennis O. Flynn is the Alexander R. Heron Professor of Economics at the University of the Pacific. He has published since 1978 dozens of essays on global monetary history, fifteen of which have been reproduced in World Silver and Monetary History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Variorum, 1996). He has co-edited Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy (Variorum 1997), Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim (Routledge, 1998), Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim History Since the 16th Century (Routledge, 1999), European Entry into the Pacific: Spain and the Acapulco-Manila Galleons (Variorum, 2001), Studies in Pacific History: Economics, Politics, and Migration (Ashgate, 2002), and Studies in Global Monetary History, 1470–1800 (Ashgate, 2002). He is co-General Editor of a 19-volume series, The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples, and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900 (Variorum/Ashgate, 2001–2004). His collaborative research with Arturo Giráldez has been featured in the New York Times (2 December 2000) and The Economist (25 August 2001). DONATE TODAYA note from Lev: I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers.  The podcast is now within the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week.  The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.   The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.   Best, Lev