Mark Metzler

Mark Metzler teaches courses in Japanese history and global history at the University of Texas at Austin. His books _Capital as Will and Imagination_ and _Lever of Empire_ form a two-part history of booms, bubbles, and busts in Japan before and after the Pacific War. His latest book, co-authored with Simon Bytheway, is _Central Banks and Gold: How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World_. In each of these stories, Japan, with its unique historical path, reveals the dynamics of global capitalism in a new light. He is a graduate of Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon; Stanford University (BA, International Relations); the University of California, Santa Cruz (MA, Comparative World History); and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, Japanese History). He has conducted research at the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University, the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, and the Economics Faculty at Osaka City University.