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...Patrick J Allen River Forest, IL, US...
...It played the decisive part in creating the Bretton Woods institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization....
...Letter in response to this article: Why the dollar is the world’s reserve currency / From J Paul Horne, Alexandria, VA, US...
...Andrew J Oswald: Young economists have not lived through times like these. I am afraid we all learn by painful experience....
...At a time when the US is reluctant to fulfil its obligations to Bretton Woods institutions, let alone join any new ones, US companies will find it tough to win a slice of the pie in Asia and elsewhere....
...The WTO, which took over in 1995 from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, has grown out of the agreements struck at Bretton Woods in the US in 1944, which sought to keep world leaders from repeating...
...In 1946 Harry Truman, FDR’s successor, was planning to appoint White as the IMF’s first managing director until J....
...The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, by Benn Steil, Princeton, RRP£19.95/$29.95 Steil’s book is an object lesson in how to make economic...
...Under the Bretton Woods system, it would be in dollars....
...From Mr Daniel J. Aronoff....
...All this talk of him forging a new Bretton Woods, following in the footsteps of Roosevelt and Churchill, has gone to his head....
...As J.M....
...“Gradually and then suddenly”, write Richard Beales and Paul J. Davies. That sudden turn has not yet happened in the global credit cycle....
...*John J. Mearsheimer, Better be Godzilla than Bambi. Foreign Policy, January/February 2005 **Balance of Power, Globalization and the Capitalist Peace....
...Lord Skidelsky, a biographer of J. M. Keynes, is professor of political economy at the University of Warwick...
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