Austerity Breeds Financial Protectionism
Advanced economies did not simply abandon capital controls after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. Martino Comelli and Pedro Perfeito Da Silva show that welfare states quietly took over their job. Countries that protect workers can afford open financial borders.
- ▪Advanced economies did not simply abandon capital controls after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement.
- ▪Martino Comelli and Pedro Perfeito Da Silva show that welfare states quietly took over their job.
- ▪Countries that protect workers can afford open financial borders.
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| Original publisher | The Loop |
| Canonical URL | https://theloop.ecpr.eu/who-the-welfare-state-protects-shapes-a-countrys-financial-openness/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:50:10 +0000 |
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Advanced economies did not simply abandon capital controls after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. Martino Comelli and Pedro Perfeito Da Silva show that welfare states quietly took over their job. Countries that protect workers can afford open financial borders. Countries that spend mainly on pensioners still police the movement of money What Keynes called heresy In 1944, defending the Bretton Woods plans in the House of Lords, John Maynard Keynes celebrated a conversion: 'the plan accords to every member Government the explicit right to control all capital movements. What used to be a heresy is now endorsed as orthodox'. Capital controls are rules that limit how money moves across borders, from taxes on foreign inflows to restrictions on taking money out of the country.
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