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Jamie Martin
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Asst Prof @Harvard_History. Author of THE MEDDLERS. Writing a history of global capitalism in WW1 hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
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    Jamie Martin
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    Jun 14, 2022
    🎉It’s publication day for my book, The Meddlers!🎉 It’s a history of the origins of the first international institutions to govern global capitalism & how they transformed old forms of financial imperialism for a new global order after World War I 1/10 hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
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    Jamie Martin
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    Apr 28, 2022
    My piece for @nytopinion on how tackling inflation in the US could lead to economic crisis in the Global South - and on the long history of the global consequences of hawkish monetary policy in the US /1
    Opinion | The U.S. Wants to Tackle Inflation. Here’s Why That Should Worry the Rest of the World....
    From nytimes.com
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    Jamie Martin
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    Jun 15, 2022
    “Structural adjustment is not just a kind of distant relative of empire, but its direct descendant.” Huge thanks to @daniel_dsj2110 for talking to me about my new book, The Meddlers, for @thenation
    The Rotten Roots of the IMF and the World Bank
    From thenation.com
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    Jamie Martin
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    Oct 9, 2021
    My book has a cover! (and a description at @Harvard_Press). Out June '22. hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
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    Jamie Martin
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    Nov 1, 2022
    My piece for @gdnlongread on the history of IMF interventionism, global resistance to it, and what this history might tell us about how the IMF will respond to today’s global debt crises
    Is the IMF fit for purpose?
    From theguardian.com
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    Jamie Martin
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    Nov 9, 2023
    If you have the bandwidth to read about something else in this time of horrors, I have a piece in the @LRB on the history of interest from antiquity to the present:
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    Jamie Martin · Kettle of Vultures: A History of Interest
    Pleasure is supposedly more valuable today than it will be tomorrow; deferral has a cost. But to the canonists, unlike...
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    Jamie Martin
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    Dec 3, 2021
    I have a new article on the global economic history of World War I in @HistoricalJnl The global history of WW1 has boomed since 2010 (see @19141918online). But it has yet to focus fully on the war's global economic, financial, & material dimensions 1/6 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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    Jamie Martin
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    Jun 27, 2024
    Really enjoyed doing this conversation with Oscar Sanchez-Sibony about the rise & fall of Bretton Woods and the strange history of the USSR in the world economy for @phenomenalworld phenomenalworld.org/interviews/mar…
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    Jamie Martin
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    Jul 20, 2022
    As yet another global debt crisis looms today, it's more urgent than ever to find new ways to govern the global economy -- and to escape the long shadows cast by the history of empire. A long excerpt from my book, The Meddlers, is out in @BostonReview bostonreview.net/articles/coope…
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    Jamie Martin
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    Apr 24, 2024
    "Jamie Martin’s The Meddlers.... artfully dismantles this conventional narrative [of the Bretton Woods system] as ‘a myth of a golden era of autonomy that never existed’" Nice review by @hpenatzer
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    The False Death of Imperial Order: Global Economic Governance Before Bretton Woods
    Published in Global Intellectual History (Vol. 11, No. 3, 2026)
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    Jamie Martin
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    Jun 14, 2022
    Replying to @jamiemartin2
    Today, we continue to live in a world whose structures of global governance are defined by these old practices of financial imperialism. Rethinking international cooperation for the 21st century - and its existential challenges - must begin from recognition of this fact 10/10
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    Jamie Martin
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    Sep 22, 2023
    "Few standard accounts of international economic history hold up to scrutiny in Jamie Martin’s bold history of economic governance." Grateful for Dina Gusejnova's generous review of The Meddlers in this issue of @TheTLS
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    The small group of American and British men who shaped the world economy
    Bretton Woods or Mont Pèlerin? International planning or neoliberal conspiracy? Few standard accounts of international economic history hold up to
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    Jamie Martin
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    Jun 14, 2022
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    It argues that institutions like the IMF - & the coercive powers they wield - emerged out of long-term efforts by bankers, empires, & internationalists to find new ways to protect investment & stabilize global capitalism in an era of rising self-determination & democracy 2/10
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    Jamie Martin
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    Jun 14, 2022
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    The origins of Bretton Woods must be seen in light of these larger and longer-term transformations in the relationship of empire and global capitalism - not just as an innovation of the US state during World War II or the brainchild of John Maynard Keynes 7/10