1st Edition
International Economic and Monetary Architecture at the Crossroads Bretton Woods at 80
Introduction: The Roads Not Taken
Atish R. Ghosh and Fabio Masini
1. Resource-based International Currency: A History of a Failed Consensual Idea
Nikolay Nenovsky
2. Champions of Free Trade: The Peruvian Proposal for a Conference on Commercial Policy at Bretton Woods
César Castillo-García
3. Five Debates at the Creation of the International Monetary Fund
Atish R. Ghosh
4. Four Roads not Taken at Bretton Woods: International Financial Proposals Ahead of their Time
Eric Helleiner
5. Bretton Woods, and the problem of sovereign defaults during the early phase
Juan Flores Zendejas
6. Paths not Taken with the American Payments Imbalance: Bureaucratic Responses in the IMF, OECD, and BIS, 1960 to 1971
Kathryn C. Lavelle
7. SDRs and Development Finance: Uncovering the Early 1970s Debate
Albertina Nania
8. A Failed Attempt towards a Multilayered Safety Net: The Asian Monetary Fund
Fabio Masini
9. A Feminist Opening? Gender Mainstreaming at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
Saliha Metinsoy
10. A Critical Road Not Taken? Assessing IMF Inclusive Growth and Frameworks of Technocratic Progressive Taxation in the post-2008 Era
Mark Hibben
11. Luxembourg’s Role in Forging Post-war Financial Governance: Knowledge, Leadership, Diplomacy
Elena Danescu
12. The Governance of the Bretton Woods Institutions: Ambitious but Failed Goals?
Susanna Cafaro
Susanna Cafaro
Biography
Atish R. Ghosh is the Historian of the International Monetary Fund. His recent work has focused on issues related to the stability of the international monetary system. He has published numerous influential studies on international policy coordination and exchange rate regimes, including three books: Economic Cooperation in an Uncertain World (1994), Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences (2003), and Currency Boards in Retrospect and Prospect (2008).
Fabio Masini is Professor of Theories and History of International Political Economy at Roma Tre University and Secretary General of Robert Triffin International. His main areas of research concern the history of economics of regional and global economic and monetary integration. His last book was on European Economic Governance: Theories, Historical Evolution, and Reform Proposals (2022) and he recently edited 80 Years after Bretton Woods. Relaunching Multilateralism through Regional Monetary Unions (2025).
