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The Ezra Klein Show
The host described it as a new, terrifyingly relevant book that explains the history of economic warfare between the world wars, and later praised it as essential for understanding the current moment.
Nick Mulder is a historian at Cornell University and the author of the terrifyingly relevant new book, The Economic Weapon, The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.
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Episode: Sanctioning Russia Is a Form of War. We Need to Tr...
The host described it as a new, terrifyingly relevant book that explains the history of economic warfare between the world wars, and later praised it as essential for understanding the current moment.
Nick Mulder is a historian at Cornell University and the author of the terrifyingly relevant new book, The Economic Weapon, The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.
Nick Mulder, your book is the economic weapon. I cannot recommend it highly enough for trying to make sense of the moment we're living through.
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He described it as an excellent overview of the history of sanctions, tracing the development of economic weapons back to the First World War.
Nick Mulder's new book, The Economic Weapon, which is a really excellent overview of the rise of sanctions as an economic tool, in particular because he goes back further than many histories of sanctions do. He doesn't just go back to the 2000s or even the 70s. He goes all the way back to the First World War and talks a lot about how the concept of sanctions developed.
Episode: Can the West Stop Russia by Strangling its Economy...
The guest highlighted it as a fascinating, pathbreaking history of sanctions that felt urgent and essential for understanding the current economic war.
The Economic Weapon, which is a fascinating, pathbreaking history of sanctions and couldn't really be more urgent in the current moment. It's a brilliant history of the early history of sanctions.
