The Coming Shift in World Trade

The Coming Shift in World Trade
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) stands in Geneva, Switzerland, on Dec. 11, 2019. Robert Hradil/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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In July 1944, a year and some months before the official end of World War II, allied powers gathered at the Bretton Woods Hotel in New Hampshire to hammer out a new economic order that would dominate the world at war’s end. The meeting alone expressed great confidence in a coming victory. They were not wrong.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]