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One of the factors that contributed to the great change in the world economy after the Second World War was the change of the United States of America’s attitude towards it.
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Richard N. Gardner, Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy, 1956, p. 4.
Richard N. Gardner, Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy, 1956, p. 76.
R. F. Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes, 1951, p. 528. It is said that prior to this, Alvin Hansen and L. H. Gulick, consultant of the National Planning Board, visited Britain, and advocated co-operation between the United States and Britain, by proposing the formation of an International Economic Board as an advisory organ for the participating countries on domestic policies designed to promote full employment, economic stabilization and world trade, and also on researches into international resources and into the setting up of an international Development Bank for economic development. (Harrod, ibid. pp. 527–8.)
Richard N. Gardner, Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy, 1956, pp. 46–7. Though the actual definition of the ‘existing obligations’ mentioned therein is not clear, Britain perhaps meant by this expression its vested interests, such as its preferential system.
R. F. Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes, 1951, pp. 537–8.
Richard N. Gardner, Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy, 1956, p. 74.
J. M. Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform, 1923, p. 172.
J. M. Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform, 1923. pp. 197–205.
J. M. Keynes, A Treatise on Money, 1930, p. 320.
Richard N. Gardner, Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy, 1956, p. 130.
Alvin H. Hansen, America’s Role in the World Economy, 1945, pp. 84–7.
Richard N. Gardner, Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy, 1956, p. 138.
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Horie, S. (1964). Birth of the Bretton Woods Agreements. In: The International Monetary Fund. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81738-2_5
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