The Battle of Bretton Woods

John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

Steil, Benn

Princeton University Press, 2014

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Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, this book shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D Roosevelt's Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival.

ISBN-13
9780691162379
ISBN-10
0691162379
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2014
Publication date
2014-03-23
Pages
480
Dimensions
216 x 140 x 30
Weight
514