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Author Hudson, Michael, 1939- author.

Title Super imperialism : the origin and fundamentals of U.S. world dominance / Michael Hudson
Edition Second edition
Published London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 425 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface to the second edition, 2002 -- I. Birth of the American World Order : 1914-46. Origins of Intergovernmental Debt, 1917-21 ; Breakdown of World Balance, 1921-33 ; America Spurns World Leadership ; Lend-Lease and Fracturing of the British Empire, 1941-45 ; Bretton Woods : The Triumph of U.S. Government Finance Capital, 1944-45 ; Isolating the Communist Bloc, 1945-46 -- II. The Institutions of American Empire. American Strategy within the World Bank ; The Imperialism of U.S. Foreign Aid ; GATT and the Double Standard ; Dollar Domination through the International Monetary Fund, 1945-46 -- III. Monetary Imperialism and the U.S. Treasury Bill Standard. Financing America's Wars with Other Nations' Resources, 1964-68 ; Power through Bankruptcy, 1968-70 ; Perfecting Empire through Monetary Crisis, 1970-72 ; The Monetary Offensive of Spring 1973 ; Monetary Imperialism : The Twenty-first Century
Summary Michael Hudson's brilliant shattering book will leave orthodox economists spluttering. Classical economists don't like to be reminded of the ugly realities of Imperialism. Hudson is one of the tiny handful of economic thinkers in today's world who are forcing us to look at old questions in startling new ways. Alvin Toffler, best-selling author of Future Shock and The Third Wave. This new and completely revised edition of Super Imperialism describes the genesis of America's political and financial domination. Michael Hudson's in-depth and highly controversial study of U.S. financial diplomacy explores the faults built into the core of the World Bank and the IMF at their inception which -- he argues -- were intended to preserve the US's financial hegemony. Difficult to detect at the time, these problems have since become explicit as the failure of the international economic system has become apparent; the IMF and World Bank were set up to give aid to developing countries, but instead many of the world's poorest countries have been plunged into insurmountable debt crises. Hudson's critique of the destructive course of the international economic system provides important insights into the real motivations at the heart of these institutions - and the increasing tide of opposition that they face around the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-412) and index
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Subject International Monetary Fund -- History -- 20th century
World Bank -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT World Bank fast
International Monetary Fund fast
Subject Imperialism -- Economic aspects
International finance.
Imperialism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
Imperialism -- Economic aspects
Diplomatic relations
Imperialism
International economic relations
International finance
Außenpolitik
Wirtschaftliches Verhalten
Großmacht
Imperialismus
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign economic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140052
United States -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849641739
1849641730
178371400X
9781783714001
Other Titles Origin and fundamentals of U.S. world dominance