Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to New Edition
Introduction to First Edition
Part I An American World
1. Pax Americana
2. The Treasury-bill Standard Versus the Gold Standard
3. Third World Problems
4. Cold War Strains Resolve Themselves in Détente
Part II Global Fracture
5. The Events of 1973
6. U.S. Trade Strategy Culminates in Export Embargoes
7. The Oil War Transforms World Diplomacy
8. America’s New Financial Strategy
9. Closing the Open Door to World Investment
10. The Ending of U.S. Foreign Aid
11. America’s Steel Quotas Herald a New Protecionism
12. The Ending of Laissez Faire
13. Basic Objectives
14. World Financial Reform
15. New Aims of World Trade
16. Government Regulation of International Investment
17. The Future of War
18. Some Implications of the New International Economic Order
19. The American Response
Notes
Index

About the Author

Michael Hudson is an independent Wall Street financial economist. After working as an economist for the Chase Manhattan Bank and Arthur Anderson in the 1960s he taught international finance at the New School in New York, and is presently Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri (Kansas City). He has published widely on the topic of the US's economic dominance, and has been an economic adviser to the Canadian, Mexican, Russian and US governments, and to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. His previous book for Pluto Press is Super Imperialism - New Edition (2003).

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