The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

摘要

The conference of Bretton Woods, held in the summer of 1944 with the goal of redesigning the world monetary order, represents one of the most ambitious and exciting moments in financial history. Economic theory and diplomacy came together to shape a system that functioned at world level until the 1970s. In his book, Benn Steil provides a vivid account of this conference as well as its premises and reverberations, proposing new anecdotal evidence and insights as well as historical interpretations.