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International monetary cooperation since Bretton Woods

This comprehensive account of the management of the international monetary system from the 1944 Bretton Woods conference to the present day documents the structure and movements of the world economy during a period of dramatic change. Commissioned by the International Monetary Fund to mark its fiftieth anniversary, the work is nevertheless a fully independent one: written by an outside historian with full access to IMF archives and staff, and reviewed by an independent editorial committee. An objective study of issues and events that are often controversial, the book skillfully interweaves the history of the IMF with that of world economic developments after the Second World War
eBook, English, 1996
International Monetary Fund ; Oxford University Press, Washington, D.C., New York, 1996
1 online resource (xvi, 742 p.) : il
9781455293070, 1455293075
955641912
1. Interdependence in the World Economic System
2. "Prosperity Has No Fixed Limits"
3. The Compromise Unravels
4. Richesse Oblige: The Establishment of Convertibility
5. Development and Bretton Woods
6. The Heyday of Bretton Woods and the Reserve Debate
7. Surveillance, Growth, and Crisis
8. The End of Bretton Woods?
9. Reform of the International Monetary System, or Nonsystem?
10. Personalities and Institutions: The Redesigning of the International Monetary Order
11. The 1970s: Capital Markets Versus the New International Economic Order
12. The Debt Crisis
13. Consensus in Cooperation and Its Fragility
14. The Problems of the New Regionalism
15. Low-Income Countries and the International Financial System
16. Plan or Price? The Transformation of Centrally Planned Economies
17. From Bretton Woods to the Information Age