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My name is Daniel Denver and I'm 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 bread and woods

institutions. On today's episode, leading economists Daniela Gabor and Dongosambacilla

Sambasilla talk about how economies, money, and finance have been

managed across national borders. They'll talk about what has changed since these orders

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