Super Imperialism
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Michael Hudson. Super Imperialism
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Super Imperialism
The Origin and Fundamentalsof U.S. World Dominance
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But now the world’s major deficit nation, the United States, flouted this adjustment mechanism. It announced that it would not let its domestic policies be “dictated by foreigners.” This go-it-alone policy had led it to refrain from joining the League of Nations after World War I, or to play the international economic game according to the rules that bound other nations. It had joined the World Bank and IMF only on the condition that it was granted unique veto power, which it also enjoyed as a member of the United Nations Security Council. This meant that no economic rules could be imposed that U.S. diplomats judged did not serve American interests.
These rules meant that, unlike Britain, the United States was able to pursue its Cold War spending in Asia and elsewhere in the world without constraint, as well as social welfare spending at home. This was just the reverse of Britain’s stop–go policies or the austerity programs that the IMF imposed on Third World debtors when their balance of payments fell into deficit.
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