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Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods
\" Forgotten Foundations is 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.\" ― Journal of
Interdisciplinary History
Eric 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.
The 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.
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The Neomercantilists
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are
gaining currency, The
Neomercantilists helps make sense of the
protectionist turn, providing the first intellectual history of the
genealogy of neomercantilism. Eric Helleiner identifies
many pioneers of this ideology between the late eighteenth and
early twentieth centuries who backed strategic protectionism and
other forms of government economic activism to promote state wealth
and power. They included not just the famous Friedrich List, but
also numerous lesser-known thinkers, many of whom came from outside
of the West.
Helleiner's novel emphasis on neomercantilism's diverse origins
challenges traditional Western-centric understandings of its
history. It illuminates neglected local intellectual traditions and
international flows of ideas that gave rise to distinctive
varieties of the ideology around the globe, including in Latin
America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. This rich history left
enduring intellectual legacies, including in the two dominant
powers of the contemporary world economy: China and the United
States.
The result is an exceptional study of a set of profoundly
influential economic ideas. While rooted in the past, it sheds
light on the present moment. The Neomercantilists shows
how we might construct more global approaches to the study of
international political economy and intellectual history, devoting
attention to thinkers from across the world, and to the
cross-border circulation of thought.
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Towards North American Monetary Union?
Helleiner finds little support in the U.S. for the concessions that would be necessary to make a North American monetary union palatable in Canada. Comparing the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Monetary Union, he argues that the influence of Canada within a North American monetary union would be far less than that of individual countries within the European community. He also considers the seemingly paradoxical support of Quebec sovereignists for free trade and monetary union.
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