Eric Helleiner's new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the key international financial inst…
"In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the argument that today's international financial system is largely analogous to the Bretton Woods system of the period 1958 to 1973. Then, as now, it has been argued, the United States ra…
Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.
Het verhaal van de totstandkoming en de val van het Systeem van Bretton Woods (1944-1973): het financieel-economisch akkoord dat in 1944 tussen 44 landen werd gesloten en mede voorzag in de oprichting van het IMF en de Wereldbank.
Recounts the events of the Bretton Woods accords, presents portraits of the two men at the center of the drama, and reveals Harry White's admiration for Soviet economic planning and communications with intelligence officers.
The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international ec…
The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international ec…
The bretton woods & affiliates institutions -- The international financial institutions : architecture, flaws and legitimacy -- The international monetary fund -- The World Bank -- The international finance corporation -- The international development association -- The internat…
This comprehensive account of the management of the international monetary system from the 1944 Bretton Woods conference to the present day documents the structure and movements of the world economy during a period of dramatic change. Commissioned by the International Monetary F…
