{"product_id":"forgotten-foundations-of-bretton-woods-eric-helleiner-9780801452758","title":"Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eForgotten Foundations \u003c\/i\u003eis classic interdisciplinary history, drawing on literatures from political science and economics as well as primary sources.... Helleiner has made an important contribution that will permanently re-frame how scholars conceptualize Bretton Woods.\"\u003c\/b\u003e― \u003ci\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Helleiner's new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank--the key international financial institutions of the postwar global economic order. Critics of Bretton Woods have argued that its architects devoted little attention to international development issues or the concerns of poorer countries. On the basis of extensive historical research and access to new archival sources, Helleiner challenges these assumptions, providing a major reinterpretation that will interest all those concerned with the politics and history of the global economy, North-South relations, and international development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bretton Woods architects--who included many officials and analysts from poorer regions of the world--discussed innovative proposals that anticipated more contemporary debates about how to reconcile the existing liberal global economic order with the development aspirations of emerging powers such as India, China, and Brazil. Alongside the much-studied Anglo-American relationship was an overlooked but pioneering North-South dialogue. Helleiner's unconventional history brings to light not only these forgotten foundations of the Bretton Woods system but also their subsequent neglect after World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Helleiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801452759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801452758\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.68h x 6.29w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 888","brand":"Eric Helleiner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926120071423,"sku":"9780801452758","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ee4907a0-39ae-4787-8a26-abe5fbcdbedd.jpg?v=1681081315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forgotten-foundations-of-bretton-woods-eric-helleiner-9780801452758","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}