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It's the Politics!—Global Trade Governance Beyond Technocracy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The World Trade Organization (WTO) struggles to respond to the growing entanglement of trade and geopolitics. Drawing on existing scholarship and 20 in‐depth interviews with ambassadors and senior trade diplomats conducted in Geneva ahead of the 13th WTO Ministerial 2024, this article reveals a fundamental dilemma at the heart of contemporary ...
Nora Kürzdörfer
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The European and international currency problem
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 Many argue that the crisis of the international monetary order founded at Bretton Woods is acting as a catalyst in the process of European monetary unification.
G. MAGNIFICO
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Geoeconomic Strategy: Bidenomics, Trump's “One Big Beautiful Bill,” and the Global Political Economy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the resurgence of industrial policy in the United States as a tool of geoeconomic strategy, focusing on the contrasting approaches of the Biden and Trump administrations. Under “Bidenomics,” the US government embraced a modern industrial strategy centered on large‐scale public investment in high‐technology and clean ...
Stuart P. M. Mackintosh, Thierry Warin
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of wages and the arbitration system in Australia's nine‐year experiment with official monetary targeting, initiated by the Fraser government in 1976. Instead of depoliticising inflation by turning it into a technical problem of monetary policy, monetarism in Australia was absorbed into the local view in which ...
Michael Beggs
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Brunner on the state of international monetary policy
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 This brief note serves as a response to Karl Brunner’s characterisation of the author’s views on the Bretton Woods system. The author also raises some questions about Brunner’s interpretation of post-World War II international monetary developments ...
R. SOLOMON
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead +3 more
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Repercusiones de Bretton Woods
Estudios de Derecho, 1947 Repercusiones de Bretton ...
J. Emilio López
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Keynes and economic development
Economia Aplicada, 2007 It is argued in this paper that although Keynes was not a development economist in the conventional sense, his theoretical apparatus and thinking about how capitalist economies function, and his proposals at Bretton Woods in 1944 for a new international ...
A. P. Thirlwall
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Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
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