Forgotten foundations of Bretton Woods : international development and the making of the postwar order

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Eric Helleiner's new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank--the key international financial institutions of the...

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Main Author: Helleiner, Eric, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2014
Subjects:
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference > (1944 : > Bretton Woods, N.H.)
International finance > History > 20th century.
Economic development > History > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • International development and the North-South dialogue of Bretton Woods
  • Good neighbors prepare the ground
  • The Inter-American Bank as first draft
  • A new approach to money doctoring in Cuba
  • Building foundations in the US postwar plans
  • Strengthening the foundations in Paraguay
  • The Latin American backing of Bretton Woods
  • Development aspirations in East Asia
  • Britain's lukewarm and inconsistent support
  • Enthusiasm from Eastern Europe and India
  • The aftermath and the forgetting
  • References
  • Index.

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