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It'd be particularly ironic if Harry Dexter White nearly single handedly won the Cold War for the US while spying for the Russians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by brownbat 12y ago
It'd be particularly ironic if Harry Dexter White nearly single handedly won the Cold War for the US while spying for the Russians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White
But you're right, I don't think it's completely far fetched.
On the other hand Bretton Woods probably wouldn't have had the same effect with just any global currency, the US did have a few perks (intact infrastructure, great mix of labor and capital, rising consumer class, demographic dividend, etc.)
- digi_owl 12y agoIt may have had an effect in the long run, but i think that in the short run the Marshall plan did more by getting Europe back on its collective feet.