week 19 – BWI: foundation for the ‘golden age’ – lecture handout / figures [pdf]
Primary reading
Bordo, MD (1993), The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: A Historical Overview, in Bordo, MD and Eichengreen, B (eds), A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System: Lessons for International Monetary Reform, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Chang, Ha-Joon (2014), Economics: The User’s Guide, London: Pelican books [chapter 3]
Helleiner, E, Rauchway, E and Schuler, K (2014), What Have We Learned about Bretton Woods from Recent Research?, Bretton Woods 2014 conference, Center for Financial Stability, Sept 2nd
Helleiner, E (2009), The Contemporary Reform of Global Financial Governance: Implications of and Lessons from the Past, G-24 Discussion Paper, UNCTAD, April
Skidelsky, R (2005), Keynes, Globalisation and the Bretton Woods Institutions in the light of changing ideas about markets, World Economics, vol 6 no 1 Jan-Mar, pp15-30
Background reading
James, H (2012), The multiple contexts of Bretton Woods, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, v28 no3, pp411-430 – particularly part I to IV (p411-420)
IMF (2014), About the IMF: Cooperation and reconstruction (1944–71), International Monetary Fund
Schenk CR (2014), Sterling and monetary policy, 1870-2010, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 2 1870 to the present, Cambridge: CUP [pp448-475]
Schifferes, S (2008), How Bretton Woods reshaped the world, BBC News, Nov 14th