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This workshop took place on May 11-12, 2023. It was hosted and organized by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Citibank wanted to build a global financial empire. In the process, it helped cement America's control over the world economy.

Citibank wanted to build a global financial empire. In the process, it helped cement America's control over the world economy.

Citibank wanted to build a global financial empire. In the process, it helped cement US dollar dominance and American control over the world economy.

While debt financing is not the only way by which countries can achieve policy priorities, it might be the most efficient one.

Among the many facts of modern life that are accepted without question by most ordinary people is that it is somehow perfectly natural, expected, and unremarkable that every sovereign state should have its own currency. We see this everywhere in names such as "the U.S.

Even when currency is backed by gold, governments have many political reasons to pursue national, territorial currencies. Now there are hundreds of national currencies

Money is a pervasive force in life, as anyone feeling the pinch from inflation knows all too well. It’s also unpredictable, unstable, unnatural, abstract, and deeply invested with emotion, trust and politics. IDEAS explores the strange history of money and how it confounds attempts to understand and control it.

The Neomercantilists should be on the shelf of every skeptic of globalization.

As the neoliberal order unravels, the international economic system can and must make room for cooperative forms of state-driven development.