Martin Daunton

The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023 -- Martin Daunton, Hardcover

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An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression.

In this vivid landmark history, the distinguished economic historian Martin Daunton pulls back the curtain on the institutions and individuals who have created and managed the global economy over the last ninety years, revealing how and why one economic order breaks down and another is built. During the Great Depression, trade and currency warfare led to the rise of economic nationalism--a retreat from globalization that culminated in war. From the Second World War came a new, liberal economic order. Squarely reflecting the interests of the West in the Cold War, liberalism faced collapse in the 1970s and was succeeded by neoliberalism, financialization, and hyper-globalization.

Now, as leading nations are tackling the fallout from COVID-19 and threats of inflation, food insecurity, and climate change, Daunton calls for a return to a more just and equitable form of globalization. Western imperial powers have overwhelmingly determined the structures of world economic government, often advancing their own self-interests and leading to ruinous resource extraction, debt, poverty, and political and social instability in the Global South. He argues that while our current economic system is built upon the politics of and between the world's biggest economies, a future of global recovery--and the reduction of economic inequality--requires the development of multilateral institutions.

Dramatic and revelatory, The Economic Government of the World offers a powerful analysis of the origins of our current global crises and a path toward a fairer international order.

Author: Martin Daunton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 1024
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.31lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.35w x 1.84d
ISBN: 9780374146412

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2023 pg. 14
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 09/04/2023
Library Journal 09/01/2023 pg. 95

About the Author
Martin Daunton is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge, where he was Master of Trinity Hall and on two occasions the head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. He has been the president of the Royal Historical Society, a Commissioner of Historic England, a trustee of the National Maritime Museum, and the chair of the Leverhulme Trust Research Awards Committee. He has held visiting professorships in Japan and Australia and is a visiting professor at Gresham College.

Product Tags:

Business & Economics, Business / Economics / Finance, Economic History, Economic history - 1945-, Farrar, Globalization, Hardcover, Martin Daunton, Political Economy, Political Science, Straus and Giroux

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