Frederick S. Weaver is professor emeritus of economics and history at Hampshire College. His recent books include Latin America in the World Economy: Mercantile Colonialism to Global Capitalism, Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude (Third Edition), and Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett’s Travelogue of 1868, with Sharon Hartman Strom. He has taught introductory and international economics for more than forty years at five colleges and universities—public and private, large and small, high-wage and low-wage, lively and less than lively.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Twentieth Century Quest for a Stable International EconomyChapter 2: The U.S. Domestic Economy and the International Scene, 1945 to 1970sChapter 3: U.S. Political Shifts and beyond Bretton Woods, 1970s to 1980sChapter 4: The New International Economy and the Dissolution of U.S. Modern Times, 1970s to 1990sChapter 5: The Triumph of Free-Market Global Capitalism, 1990s to 2007Chapter 6: The Twenty-First Century Quest for a Stable International EconomySelected Readings

Weaver provides a clear, concise, and easily-digestible description of key moments in US economic history and the economic concepts that underpin these events. His work is a boon to all undergraduates struggling through a course in international political economy and to those teaching them.

Frederick S. Weaver is professor emeritus of economics and history at Hampshire College. His recent books include Latin America in the World Economy: Mercantile Colonialism to Global Capitalism, Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude (Third Edition), and Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett’s Travelogue of 1868, with Sharon Hartman Strom. He has taught introductory and international economics for more than forty years at five colleges and universities—public and private, large and small, high-wage and low-wage, lively and less than lively.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Twentieth Century Quest for a Stable International EconomyChapter 2: The U.S. Domestic Economy and the International Scene, 1945 to 1970sChapter 3: U.S. Political Shifts and beyond Bretton Woods, 1970s to 1980sChapter 4: The New International Economy and the Dissolution of U.S. Modern Times, 1970s to 1990sChapter 5: The Triumph of Free-Market Global Capitalism, 1990s to 2007Chapter 6: The Twenty-First Century Quest for a Stable International EconomySelected Readings

Weaver provides a clear, concise, and easily-digestible description of key moments in US economic history and the economic concepts that underpin these events. His work is a boon to all undergraduates struggling through a course in international political economy and to those teaching them.

Frederick S. Weaver is professor emeritus of economics and history at Hampshire College. His recent books include Latin America in the World Economy: Mercantile Colonialism to Global Capitalism, Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude (Third Edition), and Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett’s Travelogue of 1868, with Sharon Hartman Strom. He has taught introductory and international economics for more than forty years at five colleges and universities—public and private, large and small, high-wage and low-wage, lively and less than lively.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Twentieth Century Quest for a Stable International EconomyChapter 2: The U.S. Domestic Economy and the International Scene, 1945 to 1970sChapter 3: U.S. Political Shifts and beyond Bretton Woods, 1970s to 1980sChapter 4: The New International Economy and the Dissolution of U.S. Modern Times, 1970s to 1990sChapter 5: The Triumph of Free-Market Global Capitalism, 1990s to 2007Chapter 6: The Twenty-First Century Quest for a Stable International EconomySelected Readings

Weaver provides a clear, concise, and easily-digestible description of key moments in US economic history and the economic concepts that underpin these events. His work is a boon to all undergraduates struggling through a course in international political economy and to those teaching them.