In 1944 the major world powers met at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire in the United States to organize an international monetary system that would alleviate many of the foreign-exchange ...

With WWII still unresolved, intellectual battles were raging over how to create an enduring global monetary order. To settle the issue, world leaders convened in 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

In 1944, with the death machine of World War II still very much churning, the Bretton Woods conference saw delegates from 45 nations descend on New Hampshire to devise rules that would govern the post ...

The Battle of Bretton Woods sets forth in smooth prose and concise detail an authoritative narrative of the who-what-when-why of the great monetary conference of some 70 years ago. It is jam-packed ...

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference that created the World Bank and its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From July 1 to 22, 1944, ...

Why Rethinking of Bretton Woods? Through a series of three articles, the 1944 Bretton Woods ambitions and edifices (US dollar as the global reserve currency, the IMF and the Worldbank) are assessed ...

The 1944 Bretton Woods conference will be remembered as enacting the global and financial power shift from a waning British empire towards an emerging American empire. Battles were still raging on ...