A New Look at the World Economy of the 1970s and '80s

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There is an attempt in the late sixties to introduce a kind of belated, very weak, kind of sibbling of kansas bank cor into that existing system. But they really fail to tackle it in a meaningful manner. It's very hard toof improved that system from from within at that point. And so this slowly comes to a head till in the course of 19 71, nixon essentially refuses to continue to play that hegermonic game of navigating these conflicting mandates with an eye towards the world economy of the bretonwood system. We're just going to cut through this entire gordian knot and liberate our econic policies," Nixon told his treasury secretary during

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