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Forgotten foundations of Bretton Woods : international development and the making of the postwar order / Eric Helleiner

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2016.Description: ix, 304 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781501704376
  • 1501704370
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HG 3881 H477f 2016
Contents:
International development and the North-South dialogue of Bretton Woods Good neighbors prepare the ground The first draft: The Inter-American Bank A new approach to money doctoring: Cuba Building foundations: US postwar planning Strengthening the foundations: Paraguay Latin American backing for Bretton Woods Development aspirations in East Asia Lukewarm and inconsistent Britain Enthusiasm from Eastern Europe and India The aftermath and the forgetting References Index
Summary: Provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank-the key international financial institutions of the postwar global economic order. Critics of Bretton Woods have argued that its architects devoted little attention to international development issues or the concerns of poorer countries. On the basis of extensive historical research and access to new archival sources, Helleiner challenges these assumptions, providing a major reinterpretation that will interest all those concerned with the politics and history of the global economy, North-South relations, and international development. The Bretton Woods architects-who included many officials and analysts from poorer regions of the world-discussed innovative proposals that anticipated more contemporary debates about how to reconcile the existing liberal global economic order with the development aspirations of emerging powers such as India, China, and Brazil. Alongside the much-studied Anglo-American relationship was an overlooked but pioneering North-South dialogue. Helleiner's unconventional history brings to light not only these forgotten foundations of the Bretton Woods system but also their subsequent neglect after World War II.-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293) and index.

International development and the North-South dialogue of Bretton Woods
Good neighbors prepare the ground
The first draft: The Inter-American Bank
A new approach to money doctoring: Cuba
Building foundations: US postwar planning
Strengthening the foundations: Paraguay
Latin American backing for Bretton Woods
Development aspirations in East Asia
Lukewarm and inconsistent Britain
Enthusiasm from Eastern Europe and India
The aftermath and the forgetting
References
Index

Provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank-the key international financial institutions of the postwar global economic order. Critics of Bretton Woods have argued that its architects devoted little attention to international development issues or the concerns of poorer countries. On the basis of extensive historical research and access to new archival sources, Helleiner challenges these assumptions, providing a major reinterpretation that will interest all those concerned with the politics and history of the global economy, North-South relations, and international development. The Bretton Woods architects-who included many officials and analysts from poorer regions of the world-discussed innovative proposals that anticipated more contemporary debates about how to reconcile the existing liberal global economic order with the development aspirations of emerging powers such as India, China, and Brazil. Alongside the much-studied Anglo-American relationship was an overlooked but pioneering North-South dialogue. Helleiner's unconventional history brings to light not only these forgotten foundations of the Bretton Woods system but also their subsequent neglect after World War II.-- Provided by publisher

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