Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The UN Trade and Development Debates of the 1940s -- 2 The UN Recruits Economists -- 3 Michal Kalecki, the World Economic Report, and McCarthyism -- 4 From Full Employment to Economic...

In The United States and the Global Economy, Frederick S. Weaver gives readers a concise introduction to the patterns of change in international financial and trade regimes since World War II in order to deepen their understanding of recent global economic turmoil. Weaver has compiled a clear...