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Financial institutions | September 2022

Governance, Assistance, and Interference

THE GUARDIANS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY may be established fixtures today, but their roots in Allied supply management during World War I were once controversial

Jeff Kearns
Income inequality | September 2022

Making Progress

THE LONG MARCH of progress is marked by revolutions, struggles, economic crises, liberations, injustices, and regressions—the “turning points where social conflicts are crystalized and power relationships are redefined

ERA DABLA-NORRIS
Economic theory | September 2022

China, the US, and Global Economic Leadership

China’s dramatic growth and its implications for the world economy have fueled new books at a pace commensurate with the subject

VIVEK ARORA
Commodities | June 2022

War, Peace, and Wheat

THIS PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT that wheat plays a key role in the rise and fall of empires was published two days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent prices for the grain soaring to a record and stirred supply fears.

Jeff Kearns
Financial institutions | March 2022

Overshadowed Founder

Harry White and the American Creed: How a Federal Bureaucrat Created the Modern Global Economy (and Failed to Get the Credit)

Atish Rex Ghosh
Financial markets | March 2022

The Dollar’s Primacy

The Global Currency Power of the US Dollar: Problems and Prospects

JOSEPH P. JOYCE

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