International Economic and Monetary Architecture at the Crossroads (eBook, PDF)

Bretton Woods at 80
Redaktion: Ghosh, Atish R.; Masini, Fabio

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Produktbeschreibung

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were founded at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference on the premise that international cooperation and multilateralism would be to the benefit and enrichment of all. Yet, the establishment and evolution of the global financial architecture into its current form were not inevitable: this edited volume examines the "roads not taken" - critical junctures in the histories of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank - where the choices made, and the decisions taken, would have far-reaching consequences.

Geoeconomic fragmentation, nationalism, and extreme protectionism pose threats to the open trade and payments system and are jeopardizing the hard-won gains in global incomes and living standards driven by postwar trade and globalization. Against the urgent need to rekindle the Bretton Woods spirit of cooperation and multilateralism, while also reckoning with the shortcomings of the postwar international order as they were revealed over time, the authors of this volume turn to history for inspiration, lessons, and insights from both the roads taken and those left for another day. The book also demonstrates that future reform can be inspired by previous intellectual and theoretical efforts.

The book will be of great interest to readers interested in the past, present, and future of international monetary systems, economic governance, and international finance and banking more broadly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040544044
• Artikelnr.: 75569251

Autorenporträt

Atish R. Ghosh is the Historian of the International Monetary Fund. His recent work has focused on issues related to the stability of the international monetary system. He has published numerous influential studies on international policy coordination and exchange rate regimes, including three books: Economic Cooperation in an Uncertain World (1994), Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences (2003), and Currency Boards in Retrospect and Prospect (2008). Fabio Masini is Professor of Theories and History of International Political Economy at Roma Tre University and Secretary General of Robert Triffin International. His main areas of research concern the history of economics of regional and global economic and monetary integration. His last book was on European Economic Governance: Theories, Historical Evolution, and Reform Proposals (2022) and he recently edited 80 Years after Bretton Woods. Relaunching Multilateralism through Regional Monetary Unions (2025).

Inhaltsangabe

ntroduction - The Roads Not Taken
Atish Rex Ghosh and Fabio Masini
Resource-based International Currency: A History of a Failed
Consensual Idea
Nikolay Nenovsky
Champions of Free Trade: The Peruvian Proposal for a Conference on
Commercial Policy at Bretton Woods
César Castillo-García
Five Debates at the Creation of the International Monetary Fund
Atish Rex Ghosh
Four Roads not Taken at Bretton Woods: International Financial
Proposals Ahead of their Time
Eric Helleiner
Bretton Woods, and the problem of sovereign defaults during the
early phase
Juan Huitzilihuit Flores Zendejas
Paths not Taken with the American Payments Imbalance: Bureaucratic
Responses in the IMF, OECD, and BIS, 1960 to 1971
Kathryn Lavelle
SDRs and Development Finance: Uncovering the Early 1970s Debate
Albertina Nania
A Failed Attempt towards a Multilayered Safety Net: The Asian Monetary
Fund
Fabio Masini
Evolution of Gender and Anti-Discrimination Policies at the International
Monetary Fund: A Historical Analysis
Saliha Metinsoy
A Critical Road Not Taken? Assessing IMF Inclusive Growth and
Frameworks of Technocratic Progressive Taxation in the post-2008 Era
Mark Hibben
Luxembourg's Role in Forging Post-war Financial Governance:
Knowledge, Leadership, Diplomacy
Elena Danescu
The Governance of the Bretton Woods Institutions: Ambitious but Failed
Goals?
Susanna Cafaro