The Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 arose out of the Allies' desire to design a postwar international economic system that would provide a basis for prosperity, trade, and worldwide economic ...

On 22 July 1944, in a city of New Hampshire, in all likelihood known only to its inhabitants until then, the Bretton Woods agreements were signed. The fundamental economic problem of the post-World ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference that provided the institutional basis for the golden age of economic growth after World War II, including in South Korea. The ...

Although multilateralism is in crisis, different fates await the multilateral institutions that were created under the Bretton Woods Agreement 75 years ago. While the International Monetary Fund has ...

Between 1941 and July 1944, when the Bretton Woods Conference assembled, several of the proposals contained in the initial plan were abandoned. But one of them came to fruition: the creation of the ...

Today marks the 54th anniversary of the end of the Bretton Woods agreement that pegged the dollar to gold and other currencies to the dollar. Nixon, who was regarded as among the most conservative ...

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 ...