Proposals Regarding IndicatorsAs the Bretton Woods system fell into distress in its final years, the combination of ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement, which led to the Bretton Woods System, unified forty-four nations to tackle a communal problem. It created fixed foreign exchange rates under the Bretton Woods Monetary ...

This Economic Letter summarizes the papers presented at the symposium “Revived Bretton Woods System: A New Paradigm for Asian Development?” held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on ...

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 ...

Dan Drezner started a post with the Triffin dilemma, so I figure I too can digress into the realm of history. The Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates (Bretton Woods 1) collapsed, in some ...

Mike Dooley of Deutsche Bank and UCSB makes the case that the new Bretton Woods system of fixed or heavily managed exchange rates on the “periphery” makes large (though not necessarily growing) ...

In July 1944, representatives of the 44 Allied nations gathered at a resort hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to plan the post-war international monetary and financial order. The resulting Bretton ...

Today, the idea of relinking the dollar’s value to gold is still well outside the mainstream. Most people don’t have much idea of why anyone would want to do that. This includes most economists. This ...

Delegates attend the Bretton Woods conference in July of 1944 at the Mt. Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New HampshireAlfred Eisenstaedt / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Since the end of World War II ...

Just another attempt to ignore the law and dare the courts to step in. By Lev Menand and Joel Michaels Tariffs were an urgent necessity. They’re already working. By Jamieson Greer What Trump’s ...