„The happy days of Bretton Woods, often viewed today with nostalgia, were a special case, workable because of a particular economic and political setting… the inherent contradictions in the system were too great. With the benefit of hindsight, it would seem that an erosion of the United States competitive position was implicit in the postwar arrangements.“

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— Paul Volcker

The political economy of the dollar

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Paul Volcker2

US-amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Chairman des … 1927 - 2019

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— Liu Xiaobo Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist 1955 - 2017

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— Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Brazilian politician, 35th president of Brazil 1945

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— David Graeber American anthropologist and anarchist 1961

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— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

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Kontext: This is what economics now does. It tells the young and susceptible (and also the old and vulnerable) that economic life has no content of power and politics because the firm is safely subordinate to the market and the state and for this reason it is safely at the command of the consumer and citizen. Such an economics is not neutral. It is the influential and invaluable ally of those whose exercise of power depends on an acquiescent public. If the state is the executive committee of the great corporation and the planning system, it is partly because neoclassical economics is its instrument for neutralizing the suspicion that this is so.