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Overseas Investments, 1919–1933

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The international political isolation of the United States in the twenties was a reaction to a war many Americans felt should never have been fought and a reaffirmation of the traditional American fear of entangling foreign alliances. The laissez-faire attitude of the government toward the domestic and the international economy was no more than policy based upon the established neo-classical economic doctrine of the day — or the day before.

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