The Battle of Bretton Woods

John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

The Battle of Bretton Woods

Steil, Benn

Editorial Princeton
Fecha de edición febrero 2013 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780691149097
472 páginas
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Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Benn Steil es senior fellow y director de economía internacional en el Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores en Nueva York, un poderoso lobby de la política exterior estadounidense. Editor fundador del diario International Finance, fue también director del Programa de Economía Internacional en el Royal Institute of International Affairs en Londres. Se licenció en economía en la Escuela de Negocios Wharton de la Universidad de Pensilvania y posee un doctorado por el Nuffield College de Oxford. Colabora habitualmente en The Wall Street Journal y en el Financial Times. Su libro anterior, Money, markets and Sovereignity recibió el premio Hayek Book en 2010.





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