The legends of Bretton Woods

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Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 251-256

  Gavin, Francis J ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/s0030-4387(96)90059-9     Document Type: Article

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4. Kenen Peter B., Papadia Francesco, Saccomanni Fabrizio. The International Monetary System: Proceedings of a Conference Organized by the Banca d'Italia. 1994;1 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. introductory statement.
5. Anonymous source reported as "one of Mr. Clinton's top economic advisors", quoted in Sanger David E. Trade's Bottom Line: Business Over Politics. New York Times. July 30, 1995.
6. Kunz, "The Fall of the Dollar Order", p. 23.
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8. Shelton Judy. Money Meltdown: Restoring Order to the Global Currency System. 1994;289 Free Press, New York.
9. Passell Peter. Bretton Woods: A Policy Revisited. New York Times. July 21, 1994.
10. Much of this discussion is taken from two sources. See Cooper Richard. The International Monetary System: Essays in World Economics. 1987;MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
11. de Grauwe Paul. International Money: Post-War Trends and Theories. 1989;Clarendon Press, Oxford.
12. See Ikenberry John. The Political Origins of Bretton Woods. Bordo Michael, Eichengreen Barry. A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System: Lessons for International Monetary Reform. 1993;155-182 University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
13. Gardner Richard. Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy in Current Perspective: The Origins and Prospects of Our International Economic Order. 1980;Columbia University Press, New York.
14. For a description of Keynes's original monetary plans, see Moggridge Donald. The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Activities 1940-1944, Shaping the Post-War World: The Clearing Union. Vol. XXV:1980;Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
15. Shelton, Money Meltdown, p. 17.
16. Moggridge, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXV, p. 42.
17. Moggridge, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXV, p. 267,445.
18. Memorandum by the president of the Board of Trade. The Future of Multilateral International Economic Co-operation. Sept. 12, 1949;4 Public Record Office, Kew, England. CP (49) 188.
19. Friedman Milton. The Price of the Dollar. Dollars and Deficits: Inflation, Monetary Policy and the Balance of Payments. 1968;240 Prentice-Hall, Inc, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
20. Originally published in Newsweek. Jan. 29, 1968.
21. For a non-specialist who was an exception to this rule, see Hazlitt Henry. From Bretton Woods to World Inflation: A Study of Causes and Consequences. 1984;Regnery Gateway, Chicago, Ill.
22. See Brown Brendan. The Flight of International Capital: A Contemporary History. 1987;1-15 Biddles, Ltd, London.
23. See Friedman Milton. The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates. Essays in Positives Economics. 1953;157-203 University of Chicago Press, Chicago,Ill.
24. Eichengreen Barry. International Monetary Arrangements for the 21st Century. 1994;41-47 Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. comments by Toyoo Gyohten, p. 146.
25. See also De Cecco Marcello. The International Gold Standard: Money and Empire. 1984;Francis Pinter, London.
26. See Bordo and Eichengreen, eds., A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System, p. 8.
27. The analogy is attributed to Dornbusch Rudiger. Why Currencies Overshoot. quoted in Economics: Ten Modern Classics. 1991;The Economist Newspaper Group, New York.