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Eric Helleiner's new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank-the key international financial institutions of the postwar global economic order. Critics of Bretton Woods have argued that its architects devoted little attention to international development issues or the concerns of poorer countries. On the basis of extensive historical research and access to new archival sources, Helleiner challenges these assumptions, providing a major reinterpretation that will interest all those concerned with the politics and history of the global economy, North-South relations, and international development.The Bretton Woods architects-who included many officials and analysts from poorer regions of the world-discussed innovative proposals that anticipated more contemporary debates about how to reconcile the existing liberal global economic order with the development aspirations of emerging powers such as India, China, and Brazil. Alongside the much-studied Anglo-American relationship was an overlooked but pioneering North-South dialogue. Helleiner's unconventional history brings to light not only these forgotten foundations of the Bretton Woods system but also their subsequent neglect after World War II.

International finance --- Economic development --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- History --- United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference --- Bretton Woods Conference --- Conférence monétaire et financière des Nations Unies, --- Conferencia Monetaria Internacional de Bretton-Woods --- Conferencia Monetaria y Financiera de las Naciones Unidos --- Monetary and Financial Conference, United Nations --- Rengōkoku Tsūka Kinʼyū Kaigi --- United Nations Monetary & Financial Conference --- United nations monetary and financial conference, --- United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. --- E-books --- Internationale financiën

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International finance --- Economic policy --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. --- Politique économique --- Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009 --- Government policy. --- International cooperation. --- Coopération internationale --- Politique économique --- Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009 --- Coopération internationale

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Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central role played by states in permitting and encouraging financial globalization.Helleiner begins by highlighting the commitment of advanced industrial states to a restrictive international financial order at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference and during the early postwar years. He then explains the growing political support for the globalization of financial markets after the late 1950s by analyzing five sets of episodes: the creation of the Euromarket in the 1960s, the rejection in the early 1970s of proposals to reregulate global financial markets, four aborted initiatives in the late 1970s and early 1980s to implement effective controls on financial movements, the extensive liberalization of capital controls in the 1980s, and the containment of international financial crises at three critical junctures in the 1970s and 1980s.He shows that these developments resulted from various factors, including the unique hegemonic interests of the United States and Britain in finance, a competitive deregulation dynamic, ideological shifts, and the construction of a crisis-prevention regime among leading central bankers. In his conclusion Helleiner addresses the question of why states have increasingly embraced an open, liberal international financial order in an era of considerable trade protectionism.

International finance. --- Monetary policy. --- State, The. --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science --- Monetary management --- Economic policy --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- International monetary system --- International money --- Finance --- International economic relations --- International finance --- Monetary policy --- State, The --- bretton woods --- etat --- histoire economique --- marche international financier --- politique monetaire --- 321.2 --- 333.432.8 --- 333.600 --- 333.605 --- 336.61 --- AA / International- internationaal --- staat --- economische geschiedenis --- internationale financiele markt --- monetair beleid --- Economisch beleid van de overheid --- Internationale monetaire organisatie. Internationaal Muntfonds. Algemene leningovereenkomsten --- Financiële markten. Kapitaalmarkten (algemeenheden) --- Nieuwe financiële instrumenten --- Financieel beleid --- Histoire économique --- --Finance --- --1944-1990 --- --International finance --- --International finance.

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"This book analyzes the emergence of neomercantilist thought between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, highlighting the global origins of this ideology, its diverse varieties, and the lasting legacies of the ideas of its pioneers on the politics of the world economy"--

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The rapid growth of the field of international political economy since the 1970s has revived an older tradition of thought from the pre-1945 era. The Contested World Economy provides the first book-length analysis of these deep intellectual roots of the field, revealing how earlier debates about the world economy were more global and wide-ranging than usually recognized. Helleiner shows how pre-1945 pioneers of international political economy included thinkers from all parts of the world rather than just those from Europe and the United States featured in most textbooks. Their discussions also went beyond the much-studied debate between economic liberals, neomercantilists, and Marxists, and addressed wider topics, including many with contemporary relevance, such as environmental degradation, gender inequality, racial discrimination, religious worldviews, civilizational values, national self-sufficiency, and varieties of economic regionalism. This fascinating history of ideas sheds new light on current debates and the need for a global understanding of their antecedents.

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