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2023
Abstract This chapter catalogs the same processes one hundred years later. It shows how the Bretton Woods agreements created a new international system that would preclude devastating conflicts on European and American soil. This allowed war-torn countries to ramp up their economies.
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Abstract This chapter catalogs the same processes one hundred years later. It shows how the Bretton Woods agreements created a new international system that would preclude devastating conflicts on European and American soil. This allowed war-torn countries to ramp up their economies.
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The Multiple Contexts of Bretton Woods
Past & Present, 2011This paper examines why so much debate about the structure of the international economy revolves around a conference held at Bretton Woods in July 1944 which was not immediately conspicuously successful. There was a unique confluence of contemporary contexts—in terms of trade policy, stabilization policy, and policies with regard to capital movements ...
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Crises and the Bretton Woods Institutions and the Crises of the Bretton Woods Institutions
2011The daily focus in the media on the financial crisis in the United States and Europe has overshadowed discussions of the impact of the crisis on the poorest regions of the world where millions of people live on the edge of an abyss that threatens their very survival. Moreover, in the wake of the crisis, and as a result of recent G20 meetings, there has
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The Greening of the Bretton Woods
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1996Graciela Chichilnisky on a plan for a new global bank to be a clearing house for the environmental market.
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The Bretton Woods Establishment
2003The first two IMF Managing Directors, Camille Gutt and Ivar Rooth, both independently described their experiences as ‘the worst years’ of their lives. There was a perception that the Fund was ill suited to the post-war environment and had become a ‘white elephant’ and a ‘bank without clients’ Games 1996, 83–4, 91, 102).
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Is This the End of Bretton Woods?
1972In the flood of comments that followed Mr Nixon’s statement there was hardly any point on which a high proportion of commentators agreed. There was, however, one point on which there was virtual unanimity — that 15 August marked the end of the Bretton Woods system. As far as I know, the only dissenting voice was mine.
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Silences of Bretton Woods: gender inequality, racial discrimination and environmental degradation
Review of International Political Economy, 2023Eric Helleiner
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