TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steil,Benn
TI  - The battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the making of a new world order 
SN  - 9781400846573
AV  - HG255 .B388 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Keynes, John Maynard,
KW  - White, Harry Dexter,
KW  - Monetary policy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - International finance
KW  - Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946
KW  - United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1944 : Bretton Woods, N.H.)
KW  - White, Harry Dexter, 1892-1948
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "A Council on Foreign Relations Book."; 2; Introduction --; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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