Bretton Woods: Birth of a Monetary System

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Prologue....Pages 1-3
Keynes and the ‘New Order’....Pages 5-11
Britain and the Dollar Problem....Pages 12-20
The ‘Consideration’ and Article VII....Pages 21-28
The Clearing Union....Pages 29-39
The Stabilisation Fund....Pages 40-47
Harry White Catches Up…....Pages 48-58
…And Takes the Lead....Pages 59-75
The Plans are Published....Pages 76-91
The Public Debate....Pages 92-98
The Washington Conversations....Pages 99-108
An ‘Agreement’ on Principles....Pages 109-126
The Opposition in Whitehall....Pages 127-134
The Joint Statement of Principles....Pages 135-138
Towards the Conference....Pages 139-155
Rehearsal at Atlantic City....Pages 156-167
The Bretton Woods Conference....Pages 168-223
‘Self-Contradictory or Hopelessly Obscure’....Pages 224-239
The Treasury Campaigns....Pages 240-250
Congress Debates....Pages 251-265
A Fund for a Loan....Pages 266-285
Savannah: Pax Americana....Pages 286-303
Epilogue....Pages 304-307
Back Matter....Pages 308-322