The Economics of Dictatorships vs. Democracies: Little Known History of Bretton Woods and the IMF

This episode is the audio version of the blog entry by the same name on redthebean.net/blog.html. The purpose of this piece was to make the history of the Bretton Woods conference clear, re-iterate the structure of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank broadly, and review the general plan proposed by Keynes in 1944, though rejected then, so we can see the need to try it for the first time, now, internationally. I'm still learning how to do audio production things, so excuse the sound quality of these first episodes and... stay tuned in case I get better at this. Note: Future episodes will be more curated for podcast listeners, and will not always be the audio versions of my blog entries, but will also include newsletters on current events related to our collective work to build democracies and transform economics in the tech age. The collages used for episode covers are all licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 and were made by me using free software or paper, glue, and a scanner.If you're interested in talking with me on a future episode about the intersection between tech, politics, and the history of economics, please get in touch at [email protected].