The Bretton Woods Agreements

Author : Naomi R. Lamoreaux,Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Banks and banking, International
ISBN : 9780300236798

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The Bretton Woods Agreements by Naomi R. Lamoreaux,Ian Shapiro Pdf

Commentaries by top scholars alongside the most important documents and speeches concerning the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 The two world wars brought an end to a long-standing system of international commerce based on the gold standard. After the First World War, the weaknesses in the gold standard contributed to hyperinflation, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, and ultimately World War II. The Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 arose out of the Allies' desire to design a postwar international economic system that would provide a basis for prosperity, trade, and worldwide economic development. Alongside important documents and speeches concerning the adoption and evolution of the Bretton Woods system, this volume includes lively, readable, original essays on such topics as why the gold standard was doomed, how Bretton Woods encouraged the adoption of Keynesian economics, how the agreements influenced late-twentieth-century ideas of international development, and why the agreements ultimately had to give way to other arrangements.

Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691149097

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The Battle of Bretton Woods by Benn Steil Pdf

Recounts the events of the Bretton Woods accords, presents portaits 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.

Author : Armand Van Dormael
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349036288

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Bretton Woods by Armand Van Dormael Pdf

Author : Naomi Lamoreaux,Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245578

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Bretton Woods Agreements by Naomi Lamoreaux,Ian Shapiro Pdf

Commentaries by top scholars alongside the most important documents and speeches concerning the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 The two world wars brought an end to a long†‘standing system of international commerce based on the gold standard. After the First World War, the weaknesses in the gold standard contributed to hyperinflation, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, and ultimately World War II. The Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 arose out of the Allies’ desire to design a postwar international economic system that would provide a basis for prosperity, trade, and worldwide economic development. Alongside important documents and speeches concerning the adoption and evolution of the Bretton Woods system, this volume includes lively, readable, original essays on such topics as why the gold standard was doomed, how Bretton Woods encouraged the adoption of Keynesian economics, how the agreements influenced late†‘twentieth†‘century ideas of international development, and why the agreements ultimately had to give way to other arrangements.

Author : Michael D. Bordo,Barry Eichengreen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226066905

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A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System by Michael D. Bordo,Barry Eichengreen Pdf

At the close of the Second World War, when industrialized nations faced serious trade and financial imbalances, delegates from forty-four countries met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in order to reconstruct the international monetary system. In this volume, three generations of scholars and policy makers, some of whom participated in the 1944 conference, consider how the Bretton Woods System contributed to unprecedented economic stability and rapid growth for 25 years and discuss the problems that plagued the system and led to its eventual collapse in 1971. The contributors explore adjustment, liquidity, and transmission under the System; the way it affected developing countries; and the role of the International Monetary Fund in maintaining a stable rate. The authors examine the reasons for the System's success and eventual collapse, compare it to subsequent monetary regimes, such as the European Monetary System, and address the possibility of a new fixed exchange rate for today's world.

Author : Kevin P. Gallagher,Richard Kozul-Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509546558

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The Case for a New Bretton Woods by Kevin P. Gallagher,Richard Kozul-Wright Pdf

After the 2008–9 global financial crisis, reforms to promote stability, social inclusion, and sustainability were promised but not delivered. As a result, the global economic situation, marred by inequality, volatility, and climate breakdown, remains dysfunctional. Now, the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic offers us a second chance. Kevin Gallagher and Richard Kozul-Wright argue that we must grasp it by implementing sweeping reforms to how we govern global money, finance, and trade. Without global leaders prepared to boldly rewrite the rules to promote a prosperous, just, and sustainable post-Covid world economic order – a Bretton Woods moment for the twenty-first century – we risk being engulfed by climate chaos and political dysfunction. This book provides a blueprint for change that no one interested in the future of our planet can afford to miss.

Author : Kurt Schuler,Andrew Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01
Category : International finance
ISBN : 1941801013

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The Bretton Woods Transcripts by Kurt Schuler,Andrew Rosenberg Pdf

The Bretton Woods Transcripts is the verbatim record of meetings of the conference that established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The Bretton Woods conference, named after the New Hampshire town where the conference was held in July 1944, began a new era in international economic cooperation that continues today. Delegates from 44 countries attended the conference. They were a high-powered group: many would later become top officials of the IMF and World Bank, finance ministers, central bank governors, even presidents and prime ministers. Among them, the best known then and now was John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the 20th century, who chaired the meetings that established the World Bank. The conference transcripts were never intended for publication, and give a rare word-for-word record of what participants at a major international gathering said behind closed doors. -- The Related material on the Publisher's website contain photographs of documents circulated at the 1944 conference, from daily news bulletins to the telephone directory at the Mount Washington Hotel. These documents were not published in the 1948 publication of the conference proceedings because they were considered to be of low interest.--Book Jacket.

Author : Orin Kirshner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317458173

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The Bretton Woods-GATT System by Orin Kirshner Pdf

A collection by founders and early leaders of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), presenting the current thinking on the past, present and future of the postwar system of international finance and trade.

Author : Michele Stua
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319546995

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From the Paris Agreement to a Low-Carbon Bretton Woods by Michele Stua Pdf

This book investigates the existing and possible links between the concept of a Carbon Club and the Paris Agreement. In doing so the book defines those criteria that may lead to an effective establishment of a Carbon Club acting within the mandate of the Paris Agreement and identifies the key questions that such an option may help to tackle: Which low-carbon pathways are compatible with the new temperature targets set by the Paris Agreement? Can new entities like the Carbon Club have a decisive role in guaranteeing the alignment of the aggregate mitigating actions with the global objectives identified within the Paris Agreement? What role will be played by market and non-market approaches within the proposed framework? How can economic, social, and environmental sustainability be ensured during the implementation of the Agreement? How can justice and equity be encouraged between the Parties and all the involved actors as required by the Agreement? Which instruments can be designed and adopted to provide the expected degree of transparency for the new system? To respond to these questions the book adopts a holistic approach, able to emphasize the strong interrelations. The book discusses the opportunity to develop a Carbon Club within the Article 6 framework, and provides a feasible roadmap for its means of implementation, rules and governance structure. The final result is a feasible policy proposal that takes into account all the key issues introduced by the questions, and draws a roadmap towards a 'low-carbon Bretton Woods’.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Commercial policy
ISBN : LOC:00220795020

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Bretton Woods Agreements Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045326738

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Amendments to the Bretton Woods Agreements Act of 1945, as Amended; February 27, 1959 by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : World Bank Group
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781464806551

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The World Bank Group A to Z 2016 by World Bank Group Pdf

The World Bank Group A to Z provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the new World Bank Group. This second edition is a follow-up to the first volume released for the 2014 Annual Meetings. The World Bank Group A to Z series builds on previous editions of A Guide to the World Bank to include features not found in its predecessors including: a graphical introduction to the World Bank Group, highlighting the Bank Group's goals, financials, regions, and results; examples and photos of Bank Group projects and programs; and tools to guide you to the information you are looking for (even if you don’t know exactly what that is). It also reflects the wide-ranging reforms that have taken place within the World Bank Group in recent years, including the launch of the new World Bank Group Strategy; new approaches to development; the establishment of new Global Practice Groups and Cross Cutting Solutions Areas; and the goal of becoming a "Solutions Bank," one that will marshal the vast reserves of evidence and experiential knowledge across the five World Bank Group agencies and apply them to local problems. With more than 280 entries arranged in encyclopedic A-to-Z format, readers can easily find up-to-date information about the five agencies of the World Bank Group and the wide range of areas in which they work: from agriculture, education, energy, health, social protection and labor to gender, jobs, conflict, private sector development, trade, water and climate change. The World Bank Group's work in all of these areas now focuses on two new twin goals: eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity of the poorest 40 percent in every developing country.

Author : Eric Helleiner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801470615

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Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods by Eric Helleiner Pdf

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 institutions of the postwar global economic order. Critics of Bretton Woods have argued that its architects devoted little attention to international development issues or the concerns of poorer countries. On the basis of extensive historical research and access to new archival sources, Helleiner challenges these assumptions, providing a major reinterpretation that will interest all those concerned with the politics and history of the global economy, North-South relations, and international development. The Bretton Woods architects—who included many officials and analysts from poorer regions of the world—discussed innovative proposals that anticipated more contemporary debates about how to reconcile the existing liberal global economic order with the development aspirations of emerging powers such as India, China, and Brazil. Alongside the much-studied Anglo-American relationship was an overlooked but pioneering North-South dialogue. Helleiner’s unconventional history brings to light not only these forgotten foundations of the Bretton Woods system but also their subsequent neglect after World War II.

Author : Jerzy Osiatynski,Jan Toporowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192669896

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International Equilibrium and Bretton Woods by Jerzy Osiatynski,Jan Toporowski Pdf

International Equilibrium and Bretton Woods brings together the papers presented at a special conference of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference. The papers, from a number of distinguished speakers, assess the background and the results of the Bretton Woods agreements. The discussion is focused around the critical assessment of the Keynes and White Plans by Michal Kalecki, and the consequences of this for present-day international economics and international monetary and financial policy. But this volume is unique in bringing together the critical assessments that were made at the time, by Kalecki, Fritz Schumacher, Thomas Balogh, and Raul Prebisch, that are virtually unknown today, together with critical assessments of the work of the Bretton Woods Institutions since that time.

Author : A.L.Keith Acheson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1972-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349015214

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Bretton Woods Revisited by A.L.Keith Acheson Pdf