A World Safe for Capitalism

A World Safe for Capitalism
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9780231500944
ISBN-13 : 0231500947
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Book Synopsis A World Safe for Capitalism by : Cyrus Veeser

Download or read book A World Safe for Capitalism written by Cyrus Veeser and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning book provides a unique window on how America began to intervene in world affairs. In exploring what might be called the prehistory of Dollar Diplomacy, Cyrus Veeser brings together developments in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo, Brussels, and London. Theodore Roosevelt plays a leading role in the story as do State Department officials, Caribbean rulers, Democratic party leaders, bankers, economists, international lawyers, sugar planters, and European bondholders, among others. The book recounts a little-known incident: the takeover by the Santo Domingo Improvement Company (SDIC) of the foreign debt, national railroad, and national bank of the Dominican Republic. The inevitable conflict between private interest and public policy led President Roosevelt to launch a sweeping new policy that became known as the Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. The corollary gave the U. S. the right to intervene anywhere in Latin American that "wrongdoing or impotence" (in T. R.'s words) threatened "civilized society." The "wrongdoer" in this case was the SDIC. Imposing government control over corporations was launched and became a hallmark of domestic policy. By proposing an economic remedy to a political problem, the book anticipates policies embodied in the Marshall Plan, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.


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