Drawing on prominent contributions by economists to the debate on international monetary reform, this book provides an historical perspective on the plans, schemes and ideas on the international financial system

In the Bretton-Woods era the controversy over cross-border use of national monies turned on how to create ‘symmetries' and avoid significant ‘asymmetries' in the way national currencies shared specific international currency functions. We examine the twentieth-century work of prominent...

This book enlarges our understanding of policy analysis produced in 1919-1949 by economists and other social scientists for four international organizations: the League of Nations, the International Labor Organization, the Bank for International Settlements, and the United Nations. Such...