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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobit Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

A 1944 conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire created some of today's most important economic institutions, the International Monetary Fund, and the organization that became the World Bank.

This order was built largely around the interests and ideas of the United States and its allies, many of which were empires holding much of the rest of the world under formally explicit imperial domination.

The world has changed a lot since then. Dozens of countries fought and won battles for national independence from their colonial overlords, and the United States enjoys far less dominance in the world economy than it once did.

But throughout the years, global domination of the world economy through financial power has persisted in different complicated forms, managed by economists, technocrats, and capitalists operating through and around these Bretton Woods institutions.

On today's episode, leading economists, Dan Yella-Gabor, and Dongosambasila, talk about how economies, money, and finance have been managed across national borders.

They'll talk about what has changed since these orders were explicitly managed by imperial interests like the French and British empires, and also about what hasn't from Bretton Woods to the Washington consensus to today's Wall Street consensus.

And they will be talking about it with brilliant philosopher and past dig guest, Femite Hywo, who is guest hosting this episode for me today.

I've got a lot of interviews that I'm really excited about coming up.

I mentioned a bunch of them last week, including Maryam Kaba and Geomahir, Kim Phillips Fine, Destin Jenkins, Veronica Gago, Brenda Bandar.

I've also just started reading two new books for interviews that I'll probably be doing sometime in March that are really so very excellent.

So the first is left behind. The Democrats failed attempt to solve inequality by Lily Geissmer, who I interviewed a while back about her stellar first book, Don't Play Mus, Suburban Liberals, and the transformation of the Democratic Party.

Geissmer's new book is about the rise of the new Democrats in Clintonism, and it's so good and something I've wanted to read about in more depth for a very long time.

And then I'm also reading Margarita Fajardo's The World that Latin America created, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era, a history of dependency theory, something that I've likewise been wanting to read more about forever.

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