When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in...

Big daddy -- The block trader -- Paul Samuelson's secret -- The alchemist -- Top cat -- Rock and roll cowboy -- White Wednesday -- Hurricane Greenspan -- Soros versus Soros -- The enemy is us -- The dot-com double -- The Yale men -- The code breakers -- Premonitions of a crisis -- Riding the...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: The Death of the Huai River -- Chapter Two: A Legacy of Exploitation -- Chapter Three: The Economic Explosion and Its Environmental Cost -- Chapter Four: The Challenge of Greening China -- Chapter Five: The New Politics of the Environment --...

Introduction -- Persistance -- Battlefield entrepreneurs -- The people of the book -- Harvard, Princeton and Yale -- Where rigid order meets random chaos -- Leap-frog : a short history of economic policy -- Immigration : the google guys' challenge -- Diaspora : stealing airplanes -- The buffett...

Winner of the 2010 Hayek Book Prize given by the Manhattan Institute"Money, Markets and Sovereignty is a surprisingly easy read, given the complicated issues covered. In it, Mr. Steil and Mr. Hinds consistently challenge today's statist nostrums."-Doug Bandow, The Washington TimesIn this keenly...