LEADER 03965nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910815619303321 005 20230803025341.0 010 $a1-299-05130-8 010 $a1-4008-4657-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400846573 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330142 035 $a(EBL)1084822 035 $a(OCoLC)827236445 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819479 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11523965 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819479 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10844955 035 $a(PQKB)10956276 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1084822 035 $a(OCoLC)932261754 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43458 035 $a(DE-B1597)453871 035 $a(OCoLC)979579319 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400846573 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1084822 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10648942 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436380 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330142 100 $a20120927d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe battle of Bretton Woods $eJohn Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the making of a new world order /$fBenn Steil 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (478 p.) 300 $a"A Council on Foreign Relations Book." 311 $a0-691-16237-9 311 $a0-691-14909-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The world comes to the White Mountains -- The improbable rise of Harry White -- Maynard Keynes and the monetary menace -- "The most unsordid act" -- The best-laid plans of White and Keynes -- Whitewash -- History is made -- Begging like Fala -- Out with the old order, in with the new -- Epilogue. 330 $aWhen 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. 606 $aMonetary policy$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aInternational finance$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMonetary policy$xHistory 615 0$aInternational finance$xHistory 676 $a339.5/3 700 $aSteil$b Benn$0283013 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815619303321 996 $aThe battle of Bretton Woods$94028598 997 $aUNINA