
US tells world at WEF it is going back to Hamiltonian economic system with a neutral reserve asset (FFTT, 2/10/26)
After the end of World War II, everyone assumed that Hamiltonian economic policy was the default among nations. The negotiators at Bretton Woods and other economic conferences wrote new rules around it, and baked tariffs and trade measures into the post-war international economic order. That makes sense, because all major nations used tariffs and industrial policy to support their economic development. The question for the international trading system, to quote Friedrich List from back
