The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

by Benn Steil

Book Overview

A sweeping history of the drama, intrigue, and rivalry behind the creation of the postwar economic order

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691149097
• ISBN13: 9780691149097
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 449 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.3"