Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Origins of Intergovernmental Debt, 1917 21 -- 2. Breakdown of World Balance, 1921 33 -- 3. America Spurns World Leadership -- 4. Lend- Lease and Fracturing of the British Empire, 1941 45 -- 5. Bretton Woods: The Triumph of U. S. Government Finance Capital,...

Michael Hudson is one the world's foremost critics of contemporary financial capitalism. He is also one of a tiny handful of eminent economists who is leading us to look at old questions in startling new ways. Professor Hudson is the author numerous books on international finance and economic...