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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829137403321

Autore

Crombois Jean-Francois

Titolo

Camille Gutt and postwar international finance / / by Jean F. Crombois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2011

ISBN

1-317-32364-5

1-315-65596-9

1-317-32365-3

1-283-14024-1

9786613140241

1-84893-059-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Financial history

Disciplina

337.09044

Soggetti

Finance ministers - Belgium

Finance, Public - Belgium

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Include bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. Camille Gutt, Finance and Politics; 2. Belgian War Financial Diplomacy; 3. Financial Diplomacy in London during the Second World War; 4. Extending the Benelux Agreements; 5. The Birth of a Monetary System; 6. Camille Gutt, First Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Conclusion; Glossary of Names; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As a businessman, financier, diplomat, minister and the first managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Camille Gutt (1884-1971) was involved in all the important financial negotiations that took place between the 1920s and the 1950s. Crombois uses Gutt's personal archives to examine the rise and fall of financial diplomacy as a largely private enterprise. He looks at how financial diplomacy and official diplomacy differed, and confronts the confusion between private and public interests, the high level of informality in the financial sector and the growth of postwar self-identification with national interests.