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The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony : Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets / David E. Spiro.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Political EconomyPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) : 4 tables, 10 drawingsContent type:
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  • 9781501711978
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 381.170973 23
LOC classification:
  • HG3883.A67 S65 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Explaining Petrodollar Recycling -- 2. Defining the Principles of Allocation -- 3. Making Markets Work -- 4. The Failure of International Institutions -- 5. Competing for Capital -- 6. The Interpretation of Hegemony -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Between 1973 and 1980, the cost of crude oil rose suddenly and dramatically, precipitating convulsions in international politics. Conventional wisdom holds that international capital markets adjusted automatically and remarkably well: enormous amounts of money flowed into oil-rich states, and efficient markets then placed that new money in cash-poor Third World economies. David Spiro has followed the money trail, and the story he tells contradicts the accepted beliefs. Most of the sudden flush of new oil wealth didn't go to poor oil-importing countries around the globe. Instead, the United States made a deal with Saudi Arabia to sell it U.S. securities in secret, a deal resulting in a substantial portion of Saudi assets being held by the U.S. government. With this arrangement, the U.S. government violated its agreements with allies in the developed world. Spiro argues that American policymakers took this action to prop up otherwise intolerable levels of U.S. public debt. In effect, recycled OPEC wealth subsidized the debt-happy policies of the U.S. government as well as the debt-happy consumption of its citizenry.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Explaining Petrodollar Recycling -- 2. Defining the Principles of Allocation -- 3. Making Markets Work -- 4. The Failure of International Institutions -- 5. Competing for Capital -- 6. The Interpretation of Hegemony -- Works Cited -- Index

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Between 1973 and 1980, the cost of crude oil rose suddenly and dramatically, precipitating convulsions in international politics. Conventional wisdom holds that international capital markets adjusted automatically and remarkably well: enormous amounts of money flowed into oil-rich states, and efficient markets then placed that new money in cash-poor Third World economies. David Spiro has followed the money trail, and the story he tells contradicts the accepted beliefs. Most of the sudden flush of new oil wealth didn't go to poor oil-importing countries around the globe. Instead, the United States made a deal with Saudi Arabia to sell it U.S. securities in secret, a deal resulting in a substantial portion of Saudi assets being held by the U.S. government. With this arrangement, the U.S. government violated its agreements with allies in the developed world. Spiro argues that American policymakers took this action to prop up otherwise intolerable levels of U.S. public debt. In effect, recycled OPEC wealth subsidized the debt-happy policies of the U.S. government as well as the debt-happy consumption of its citizenry.

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In English.

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