248 Pages
by
Routledge
This book investigates the birth and early evolution of the international aid regime in the 1940s and 1950s, considering how America established a postwar economic order in which aid was balanced against the establishment of the IMF as an instrument of economic discipline.
Through the combination of the carrot of global aid and the monetarist stick of the IMF, the US was able to successfully... Read more
1. The Potentialities of Our Power: World War Two and the Rise of American Multilateral Hegemony 2. Complete Monetary Destruction: Harry Dexter White, American Elites, and the Bretton Woods Agreement 3. A Hundred Years of Peace: US Dollar Surpluses, The Marshall Plan and the Mutual Security Program 4. All of the Countries of the Free World: Finding a Use for the International Monetary Fund 5. Neutral on Our Side: Development, The Cold War, and the Creation of the First Global Aid Institutions
Biography
Luke Fletcher is Visiting Fellow at UNSW School of Social Sciences, Australia, and Executive Director of the Jubilee Australia Research Centre.
