Before the Neoliberal Turn

Simone Selva is currently Research Fellow in the history of international economic relations at the University of Naples L’Orientale and visiting scholar at New York University. A former scholar at Harvard and Oxford Universities, he specializes in the process of international financial and monetary interdependence from Bretton Woods through the 1970s. He is the author of Supra-national integration and domestic economic growth: The United States and Italy in the Western Bloc Rearmament Programs, 1945-1955.

“Selva’s in-depth analysis of US finance policies a welcome addition to the scholarship in aiding understanding of the actors who have co-created the market for alternative fuels through subsidies, mandates and the much-hyped knowledge-based economy. … Before the Neoliberal Turn is a valuable book for social scientists interested in the history of energy finance and American democracy.” (Ayesha Umar, LSE Business Review, blogs.lse.ac.uk, April 28, 2019)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. American foreign financial and economic policy prior to the end of Bretton Woods: Capital account policies, foreign trade and development assistance policies.- 3. Oil, private capital markets, inflation:  the crumbling of the post war international payments system before the end of Bretton Woods.- 4. The rise of OPEC Energy finance and the quest for capital supply in the US foreign economic policy 1973-1976.- 5. From the collapse of policies on the capital account through the Carter Administration demand side policies: the short circuit between balance of payments deficit financing measures and petrodollar recycling.- 6. capital markets developments, non oil LDC imbalances, inflation, and the stabilization of US international payments position from the 1960s through the 1970s: continuities and change in the American foreign financial policy