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Ummm...Since when was Cold War one big fight to create one liberal global market? I thought it was a twilight struggle to defeat Communism and save us from the Red Boot? 1/
Western free societies during Cold War characterized by mixed economies involving regulation of labor and capital mobility. fpri.org/article/2011/0… James Kurth offered great short picture here. 2/
Transnationalist liberalism became really ascendant in the 1990s. Washington Consensus etc. 3/
From a different political angle: amazon.com/gp/aw/d/039334… @rodrikdani
Last admin of Cold War - Reagan added “more trade barriers than any administration since Hoover” according to William @NiskanenCenter - econlib.org/library/Enc1/R…
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