The Economic Government of the World
1933-2023
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023, ©2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: xxxiv, 986 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
"An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Part one: responding to the Great Depression -- 'The establishment of a sound national economy': the politics of the Great Depression -- 'Barren harvest': the World Monetary and Economic Conference, 1933 -- 'Beggar my neighbour': the failures of the world economy, 1933-1939 -- 'Escaping from backwardness': strategies of economic development -- Part two: the Bretton Woods era -- 'Handling the English': lend lease, commercial policy and sterling balances -- 'A firm foundation': reforming the monetary system -- 'An integrated program': food, employment and commodities -- 'The threshold of the future': the Bretton Woods Agreement -- 'A financial Dunkirk': the United States, Britain and Germany -- 'Happier relations between all countries': the failure of the International Trade Organization -- 'Convertible currencies in the free world': sterling and Europe -- 'Damn it, we're a bank': contesting development -- 'A common detestation of colonialism': development, nationalism and the Cold War -- 'Competitive cooperation': the Kennedy round, the United States and the Common Market -- 'Progress towards self-sustaining growth': the development decade -- Part three: Washington consensus -- 'Trying to live with an anomaly': the limits of Bretton Woods -- 'Benign neglect': closing the gold window -- 'Music without any middle C': the floating world -- 'A trade union of the poor': the new international economic order and the limits to growth -- 'Expansion of economic freedom': the rise of market liberalism -- 'Market fundamentalism': the Washington consensus and financial liberalization -- 'Rules-based system': creating the World Trade Organization -- 'Setting the bird free': Economies in transition -- 'Eurofantasies': from economic and monetary union to the euro -- Part four: beyond neo-liberalism - 'Behaving badly': the global financial crisis -- 'Messy multilateralism': nationalism versus globalism -- Fair capitalism and globalization: the way ahead.
Subjects:
International economic relations -- History.
Economic policy -- International cooperation -- History.
Financial institutions, International -- History.
Economic history -- 1918-1945.
Economic history -- 1945-
International economic relations -- History.
Economic policy -- International cooperation -- History.
Financial institutions, International -- History.
Economic history -- 1918-1945.
Economic history -- 1945-
ISBN:
9780374146412
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BUSINESS Economics History Dau | Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | Coming Soon |
Includes bibliographical references and index.