Pat Buchanan has a helpful post at The American Conservative summarizing the last century of international relations on the economy, including Bretton Woods (1944) and the dropping of the gold standard (1971) and makes some predictions about how the U.S. might respond to European plans to renew a globalized economy (”screw you”).
Also, I’ve been meaning to link this – I’m trying (unsuccessfully so far) to work my way through The Bailout Reader at the Mises Institute. The Mises folks are Austrian school, free market economists. (And by “free,” I don’t mean, “sorta kinda free but not really, especially when the economy’s in the crapper”).
