{"product_id":"the-hidden-hand-of-american-david-e-spiro-9780801428845","title":"The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Scenes from Private Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1973 and 1980, the cost of crude oil rose suddenly and dramatically, precipitating convulsions in international politics. Conventional wisdom holds that international capital markets adjusted automatically and remarkably well: enormous amounts of money flowed into oil-rich states, and efficient markets then placed that new money in cash-poor Third World economies. David Spiro has followed the money trail, and the story he tells contradicts the accepted beliefs. Most of the sudden flush of new oil wealth didn't go to poor oil-importing countries around the globe. Instead, the United States made a deal with Saudi Arabia to sell it U.S. securities in secret, a deal resulting in a substantial portion of Saudi assets being held by the U.S. government. With this arrangement, the U.S. government violated its agreements with allies in the developed world. Spiro argues that American policymakers took this action to prop up otherwise intolerable levels of U.S. public debt. In effect, recycled OPEC wealth subsidized the debt-happy policies of the U.S. government as well as the debt-happy consumption of its citizenry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David E. Spiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080142884X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801428845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.42w x 0.74d","brand":"David E. Spiro","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926113681663,"sku":"9780801428845","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_83cc6c9f-c0f4-4194-afe1-ca220ebd0190.jpg?v=1681081277","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-hidden-hand-of-american-david-e-spiro-9780801428845","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}