Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press. Yes God, God, God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 239 239 239

239 the plodcast I'm Douglas Wilson. Thank you for joining me. So what I want to do today, normally I have the

her archaeology section and the topic of the day and then a book review and

I'm doing that again today but my topic that I'm going to start with and my book review at the end are going to have a significant bit of overlap so just be forewarned there's going be, we are not going to change subjects entirely when we get to that.

So I want to talk about the Bretton Woods agreement that was New

New Hampshire and the, sort of New Hampshire.

And the sort of the global order that followed in the post-war era, which I think is now coming

to a close.

So there was a 70 year run there, which is pretty good.

So what was this Bretton Woods agreement?

That was where the International Monetary Fund was established.

But the significant thing that came out of that was

globalization and I'm and this is anticipated my book review I'm I'm, and this is anticipating my book review.

I'm persuaded by the thesis, the central thesis

of a gent named Peter Zahan.

I'm gonna be talking about one of his books shortly, so that's where the overlap comes in.

So weigh all these things accordingly.

But his central insight, which I'm riffing off of and which I find compelling, is this.

At the end of, well, most people think that globalization is simply something that happened

because the world got smaller because there are that many more of us, because the population

grew because technology advanced and everybody thought of globalization as being sort of an inevitable

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