...Filippo Cesarano John Maynard Keynes put forward a number of proposals to reshape the international monetary system. Although variegated, they do have one characteristic in common—the rejection of freely flexible exchange rates—which, in a sense, is like a prism refracting the different shades...

...Ivo Maes; Ilaria Pasotti Robert Triffin (1911–1993) played an important role in the international monetary debates in the postwar period. He was known as one of the main advocates of a multipolar international monetary system. In this paper we analyze the origins of Triffin’s “regional” approach...

... believed that the benefits of a fixed exchange rate system outweighed the potential benefits of a national fiat standard. He also thought that this belief was shared by “most observers,” and hence he predicted that this would happen. “All likelihood speaks for a return to an international monetary...

... Monetary System . Oxford: Clarendon Press. Clarke, Stephen V. O. 1973 . The Reconstruction of the International Monetary System: The Attempts of 1922 and 1933 . Princeton Studies in International Finance, no. 33. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University. Cunliffe Committee on Currency and Foreign...

...James M. Boughton By Filippo Cesarano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii; 248 pp. $80.00. 2008 Bordo, Michael D. 1993 . The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: A Historical Overview. In A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System: Lessons for International...

... Unions. Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 : 409 -36. Bordo, Michael D. 1993 . The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: A Historical Overview. In A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System , edited by Michael D. Bordo and Barry Eichengreen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bordo...

... Woods International Monetary System: A Historical Overview. In A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System , edited by M. D. Bordo and B. Eichengreen, 3 -89. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bordo, M. D., and H. James. 2002 . The Adam Klug Memorial Lecture: Haberler versus Nurkse: The Case...

... in South Korea . New York: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Clarke, S. V. O. 1967 . Central Bank Cooperation: 1924–31 . New York: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Cleveland, H. van B. 1976 . The International Monetary System in the Interwar Period. In Balance of Power or Hegemony: The Interwar...

... bank bicentenary, the key themes of central banking are discussed from a historical perspective. The focus is on four issues: the central bank as an institution, the central bank as part of the international monetary system, the central bank and other national institutions, and the central bank from...

... White: Still Not Proven. HOPE 33 : 219 -39. ____. 2001b . Why White, Not Keynes? Inventing the Postwar International Monetary System . Mimeo. Washington, D.C.:International Monetary Fund. Bryce, R. B. 1935 . Memorandum of Work Proposed . Harvard University Archives, Schumpeter Papers, HUG...

... by a diminishing of its role as a stabi- lizing element in the international monetary system through the absorp- tion of the surplus gold in circulation. This role is usually described as the “parachute effect,” a label borrowed from an expression used for the first time by Chevalier, in 1865, in order...

... with two short books. The first is Hayek’s lectures at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva at Easter 1937 on monetary nationalism and international stability. There he criticized the international gold standard, as it had evolved since the nineteenth century, as not international...

... -74. Jones , Ronald W. 1976 . ‘Terms of trade and transfers: the relevance of the literature.’ In D. Leipziger, ed., The international monetary system and the developing nations (Washington), 99 -114. Keynes , John Maynard 1913 . Indian currency and finance. London. In Collected...

... . British Monetary Policy 1924-1931: The Norman Conquest of $4.86 . Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. ____. 1986 . Keynes and the International Monetary System 1909-46. In International Monetary Problems and Supply-Side Economics: Essays in Honour of Lorie Tarshis , edited by Jon Cohen and Geoff...

..., it is only referred to on one or two occasions in passing (e.g., GT p. 164) and in brief “Concluding Notes” of a general nature (GT pp. 372-84). Similarly, the problem of the international monetary system-which was one of Keynes’ major concerns in both the Tiact and the Treatise...

... as is the restoration of a rules-based system. James M. Boughton, International Monetary Fund 10.1215/00182702-2008-020 References Bordo, Michael D. 1993. The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: A Historical Overview...

...: The Construction of an International Monetary Order. By Filippo Cesarano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii; 248 pp. $80.00. What was the Bretton Woods system? The historical facts are clear enough. Shortly after the end of World War II, some forty countries formed the International Mon...

... of international settlements based on gold. Since its collapse, chaos has reigned, and the challenge has become “to design a system based on rules that can be enforced” (Bordo 1993, 83). Or, as Harold James (1996, 230) expressed it, “the demise of gold left for many a vacuum in the world’s monetary order...

.../Marshall Plan Papers, 1945-2005 (2 boxes), box 1 (in author’s possession) . Eichengreen Barry . 1990 . “ Hegemonic Stability Theories of the International Monetary System .” In Elusive Stability: Essays in the History of International Finance, 1919-1939 , edited by Eichengreen Barry , 271...

... of the review Cahiers d’économie politique. His main fields of interest are the his- tory of monetary thought and the history of the international monetary system. His books include Private Money and Public Currencies (M. E. Sharpe, 1994; written with Marie-Thérèse Boyer-Xambeu and Lucien Gillard), Money...