TY  - JOUR
AU  - Eichengreen,Barry
TI  - Three Perspectives on the Bretton Woods System
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4141
PY  - 1992
Y2  - August 1992
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4141
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4141.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Barry Eichengreen
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
549 Evans Hall 3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
Tel: 510/642-2772
Fax: 510/643-0926
E-Mail: eichengr@econ.Berkeley.edu
AB  - The twenty years that have passed since the collapse of the Bretton Woods System provide sufficient distance to safely assess the operation of the post-World War II international monetary system. This paper considers the history and historiography of Bretton Woods from three perspectives. First, I ask how the questions posed today about the operation of Bretton Woods differ from those asked twenty years ago. Second, I explore how today's answers to familiar questions differ from the answers offered in the past. Third, I examine the implications of Bretton Woods experience for international monetary reform.
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