Meddlers

“Martin’s impressive new book, The Meddlers, considers the League of Nations and other interwar precursors of ‘neutral’ institutions of doux commerce to show how closely the ‘birth of global economic governance’ was entangled with empire.” —David Priestland, London Review of Books

“Few standard accounts of international economic history hold up to scrutiny in Jamie Martin’s bold history of economic governance.” —Dina Gusejnova, Times Literary Supplement

“The Meddlers is an eye-opening, essential new history that places our international financial institutions in the transition from a world defined by empire to one of nation states enmeshed in the world economy.”
—Adam Tooze, Columbia University

Institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank exert enormous influence over the domestic policies of many… Keep Reading