Bretton Woods-GATT System

A collection by founders and early leaders of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), presenting the current thinking on the past, present and future of the postwar system of international finance and trade. Section I History; Chapter 1 The Bretton Woods Conference and the Birth of the International Monetary Fund, Margaret Garritsen de Vries; Chapter 2 Some Issues in the Bretton Woods Debates, Raymond F. Mikesell; Chapter 3 Reconstruction vs. Development: The IMF and the World Bank, Victor L. Urquidi; Chapter 4 The U.S. Government at Bretton Woods and After, Raymond Vernon; Chapter 5 A British Perspective on Bretton Woods, Alexander CairncrossSir; Chapter 6 The Birth of a World Trading System: ITO and GATT, Simon Reisman; sectII Adaptations; Chapter 7 The Making and Remaking of the Bretton Woods Institutions, Edward M. Bernstein; Chapter 8 Fifty Years of Bretton Woods, Roberto Campos; Chapter 9 The World Bank: Challenges and Creative Responses, Andrew M. Kamarck; Chapter 10 Bretton Woods Fifty Years Later: A View from the International Monetary Fund, Margaret Garritsen de Vries; Chapter 11 Bretton Woods and European Reconstruction, Jacob J. Kaplan; Chapter 12 From the ITO to GATT—And Back?, William DieboldJr.; Chapter 13 An Impressionistic Tour of International Investment Codes, 1948–1994, Walter A. Chudson; Chapter 14 The Bretton Woods-GATT System after Fifty Years: A Balance Sheet of Success and Failure, Richard N. Gardner; sectIII Future; Chapter 15 Bretton Woods, Prosperity and Security, Paul H. Nitze, J. H. McCall; Chapter 16 Challenges and Opportunities for the World Bank, Barend A. de Vries; Chapter 17 Post-Uruguay Round Trade Policy for a Global Economy, Isaiah Frank; Chapter 18 Agriculture and Multilateralism, Fred H. Sanderson; Chapter 19 Regionalism, Multilateralism, and American Leadership, Joseph A. Greenwald; Chapter 20 Bretton Woods: Fifty Years After, Tran Van-Thinh; Chapter 21 The “Informatization” of World Affairs, Harlan Cleveland;