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The Bretton Woods Agreements

Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019

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Commentaries by top scholars alongside the most important documents and speeches concerning the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944

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Naomi Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University. Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Introduction

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    Naomi Lamoreaux and Ian Shapiro
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  • Part I. The Weight of the Past
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    Chapter 1. The Political Economy of the Bretton Woods Agreements

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    Jeffry Frieden
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    Chapter 2. The Monetary Role of Gold as the Original Sin of Bretton Woods

    38
    Barry Eichengreen
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    Chapter 3. The Missing Bretton Woods Debate over Flexible Exchange Rates

    56
    Douglas A. Irwin
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  • Part II. The Disappearing Order
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    Chapter 4. The Universally Keynesian Vision of Bretton Woods

    77
    James M. Boughton
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    Chapter 5. Bretton Woods: The Parliamentary Debates in the United Kingdom

    95
    Andrew Bailey, Gordon Bannerman and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
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    Chapter 6. A “Barbarous Relic”: The French, Gold, and the Demise of Bretton Woods

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    Michael J. Graetz and Olivia Briffault
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  • Part III. Paths Taken and Not Taken
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    Chapter 7. Nutrition, Food, Agriculture, and the World Economy

    145
    Martin Daunton
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    Chapter 8 Australia’s Full-Employment Proposals at Bretton Woods: A Road Only Partly Taken

    173
    Selwyn Cornish and Kurt Schuler
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    Chapter 9. How the Bretton Woods Negotiations Helped to Pioneer International Development

    195
    Eric Helleiner
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  • Part IV. Denouement and Legacy
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    Chapter 10. The Operation and Demise of the Bretton Woods System, 1958–1971

    217
    Michael D. Bordo
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    Chapter 11. Japan and the Collapse of Bretton Woods

    236
    Frances McCall Rosenbluth and James Sundquist
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    Chapter 12. The Multiple Contexts of Bretton Woods

    254
    Harold James
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    Historical Documents

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    Glossary

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    Contributors

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    Credits

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    Index

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July 23, 2019
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9780300245578
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This book is in the series
Basic Documents in World Politics
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Basic Documents in World Politics
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