The Battle of Bretton Woods : : John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order /

The Battle of Bretton Woods : : John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order / / Benn Steil.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Steil, Benn,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 32 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The World Comes to the White Mountains
  • Chapter 3. The Improbable Rise of Harry White
  • Chapter 4. Maynard Keynes and the Monetary Menace
  • Chapter 5. "The Most Unsordid Act"
  • Chapter 6. The Best-Laid Plans of White and Keynes
  • Chapter 7. Whitewash
  • Chapter 8. History Is Made
  • Chapter 9. Begging Like Fala
  • Chapter 10. Out with the Old Order, In with the New
  • Chapter 11. Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. Harry Dexter White Manuscript Photos
  • Appendix 2. Statement of Harry S. Truman on Harry Dexter White, 1953
  • Cast of Characters
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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