Entrepot Capitalism: Foreign Investment and the American Dream in the Twentieth Century

by Charles R. Geisst

This is the first history on the subject of foreign investment in the United States since 1920. It shows how the United States changed from a debtor nation to a supplier of capital to the rest of the world, and then details the structural shifts to this creditor position after the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in 1972. Geisst demonstrates that the United States has always been a magnet for foreign portfolio and direct investment. Traditionally,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275938948
• ISBN13: 9780275938949
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.6"