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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807400303321

Titolo

Orderly change : international monetary relations since Bretton Woods / / edited by David M. Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8014-5831-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AndrewsDavid M

Disciplina

332/.042

Soggetti

International finance - History - 20th century

Monetary policy - History - 20th century

International economic relations - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bretton Woods : system and order / David M. Andrews -- Trade and money in the Roosevelt administration : toward the Bretton Woods agreement, 1933-1944 / David M. Andrews -- Wartime financial diplomacy and the transition to the Treasury system, 1939-1947 / Anastasia Xenias -- International liquidity provision : the IMF and the World Bank in the Treasury and Marshall systems, 1942-1957 / Jeffrey M. Chwieroth -- Ambiguous aspects of Bretton Woods : Canadian exchange-rate policy in the Marshall system, 1950-1962 / Eric Helleiner -- Kennedy's gold pledge and the return of central bank collaboration : the origins of the Kennedy system, 1959-1962 / David M. Andrews -- U.S. payments problems and the Kennedy round of GATT negotiations, 1961-1967 / Lucia Coppolaro -- Incomes policies and the U.S. commitment to fixed exchange rates, 1953-1974 / Wesley W. Widmaier -- West German monetary policy and the transition to flexible exchange rates, 1969-1973 / Hubert Zimmermann -- Legal foundations of the U.S. dollar, 1933-1934 and 1971-1978 / E. Richard Gold -- The institutional legacy of Bretton Woods : IMF surveillance, 1973-2007 / Louis W. Pauly -- Future prospects of the Bretton Woods order / David M. Andrews.

Sommario/riassunto

The contributors to Orderly Change show that the history of international monetary relations since Bretton Woods is one of "orderly



change"--that is, change within a sturdy but supple framework.