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The battle of Bretton Woods : John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the making of a new world order /

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944,...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Steil, Benn (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • The world comes to the White Mountains
  • The improbable rise of Harry White
  • Maynard Keynes and the monetary menace
  • "The most unsordid act"
  • The best-laid plans of White and Keynes
  • Whitewash
  • History is made
  • Begging like Fala
  • Out with the old order, in with the new
  • Epilogue.