History of the GPE
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Videos
- See Lecture Video
- PBS documentary on the 2008 financial crisis: https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-inside-the-meltdown/
Podcasts
- Javier Mejia, The Economic and Political History Podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/the-economic-and-political-history-podcast/id1708348817
- Global Economy Podcast, ECIPE, https://ecipe.org/feed/podcast/global-economy-podcast/
- History of Economic Thought, Ceterus Paribus podcast, https://ceterisneverparibus.net/
- U. of Oxford, History of Key Institutions podcast, https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/history-key-institutions-imfworld-bankg8g20-what-why-when
Readings
- Bretton Woods- Creation:
- https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/bretton-woods-created
- https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/bretton-woods
- History of the Global Economy: see PBS’s Commanding Heights series (based on the book by Daniel Yergin), http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/
- WTO/GATT/GATS, https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/fact1_e.htm
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff:
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Smoot-Hawley-Tariff-Act
- https://eh.net/encyclopedia/smoot-hawley-tariff/
- Marshall Plan: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/marshall-plan
- BRICS:
- https://infobrics.org/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66525474