TY - BOOK ID - 14275479 TI - The battle of Bretton Woods PY - 2013 SN - 0691149097 0691162379 1400846579 1299051308 1400898951 9781400846573 9781299051300 9780691149097 9781400898954 PB - Princeton DB - UniCat KW - International finance - History - 20th century. KW - Keynes, John Maynard. KW - Monetary policy - History - 20th century. KW - White, Harry Dexter. KW - Monetary policy KW - International finance KW - Finance KW - Business & Economics KW - Money KW - 20th century KW - History KW - Keynes, John Maynard, KW - White, Harry Dexter, KW - United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference KW - Monetary management KW - Keĭns, Dzhon Maĭnard, KW - Kʻai-yin-ssŭ, KW - Kʻai-en-ssu, KW - Keynes, J. M. KW - Kenis, C. M., KW - Keyns, C. M., KW - Bretton Woods Conference KW - Conférence monétaire et financière des Nations Unies, KW - Conferencia Monetaria Internacional de Bretton-Woods KW - Conferencia Monetaria y Financiera de las Naciones Unidos KW - Monetary and Financial Conference, United Nations KW - Rengōkoku Tsūka Kinʼyū Kaigi KW - United Nations Monetary & Financial Conference KW - United nations monetary and financial conference, KW - Economic policy KW - Currency boards KW - Money supply KW - 20th century. KW - United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. KW - E-books KW - -International finance KW - -339.53 KW - International monetary system KW - International money KW - International economic relations KW - -History KW - -Keynes, John Maynard KW - Keynes, J. Maynard KW - Keynes, J.M. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14275479 AB - When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords, however, is full of startling drama, intrigue, and rivalry, which are vividly brought to life in Benn Steil's epic account. Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, Steil shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival. At the heart of the drama were the antipodal characters of John Maynard Keynes, the renowned and revolutionary British economist, and Harry Dexter White, the dogged, self-made American technocrat. Bringing to bear new and striking archival evidence, Steil offers the most compelling portrait yet of the complex and controversial figure of White--the architect of the dollar's privileged place in the Bretton Woods monetary system, who also, very privately, admired Soviet economic planning and engaged in clandestine communications with Soviet intelligence officials and agents over many years. A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn, The Battle of Bretton Woods is destined to become a classic of economic and political history. ER -