Uses archival evidence to provide unique insights into US economics, focusing on the origins of the IMF, building a multilateral strategy for the US, the Great Inflation of the 1970s, and on Marriner S. Eccles, Lauchlin Currie, Allyn Young, John H. Williams and Arthur I. Bloomfield.

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in...

Prologue : The missing legacy -- PART I: BECOMING HARRY DEXTER WHITE. 1. Who--really--was Harry White? -- 2. The education of Harry White -- 3. A brief academic career -- PART II: BECOMING A KEYNESIAN INTERNATIONALIST. 4. What next? Dr. White goes to Washington -- 5. Settling into Morgenthau's...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is a much cited but little studied institution, and its role in international governance is poorly understood. Nevertheless, the OECD plays an important role in the emerging structure of global governance. Focusing upon the OECD's core...