Nations experts were completing plans for a world monetary and financial system that they hoped would create a prosperous …, efficient global economy and avert economic tensions that might lead to another world war. Until the dollar crisis of 1971 … of unprecedented expansion of world trade and prosperity. Based on extensive research in previously unavailable sources …

the early 1930s. In his view, the growth of foreign exchange reserves after World War Two repeated, but on a much larger … scale, their similar expansion after the First World War. Triffin argued that the gold exchange standard had been a highly …