Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

by Barry Eichengreen

Book Overview

Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.

In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the argument that today's international financial system is largely analogous to the Bretton Woods System of the period 1958...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262514141
• ISBN13: 9780262514149
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher