Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The Weight of the Past
5. Chapter 1. The Political Economy of the Bretton Woods Agreements 21
6. Chapter 2. The Monetary Role of Gold as the Original Sin of Bretton Woods 38
7. Chapter 3. The Missing Bretton Woods Debate over Flexible Exchange Rates 56
8. Part II. The Disappearing Order
9. Chapter 4. The Universally Keynesian Vision of Bretton Woods 77
10. Chapter 5. Bretton Woods: The Parliamentary Debates in the United Kingdom 95
11. Chapter 6. A “Barbarous Relic”: The French, Gold, and the Demise of Bretton Woods 121
12. Part III. Paths Taken and Not Taken
13. Chapter 7. Nutrition, Food, Agriculture, and the World Economy 145
14. Chapter 8 Australia’s Full-Employment Proposals at Bretton Woods: A Road Only Partly Taken 173
15. Chapter 9. How the Bretton Woods Negotiations Helped to Pioneer International Development 195
16. Part IV. Denouement and Legacy
17. Chapter 10. The Operation and Demise of the Bretton Woods System, 1958–1971 217
18. Chapter 11. Japan and the Collapse of Bretton Woods 236
19. Chapter 12. The Multiple Contexts of Bretton Woods 254
20. Historical Documents 273
21. Glossary 465
22. Contributors 473
23. Credits 475
24. Index 477