States and the Reemergence of Global Finance From Bretton Woods to The 1990s

Name: States and the Reemergence of Global Finance From Bretton Woods to The 1990s
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ISBN: 9780801483332

ISBN-10: 0801483336

ISBN-13: 9780801483332

Edition: 2015

Authors: Eric Helleiner

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Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central role played by states in permitting and encouraging financial globalization.Helleiner begins by highlighting the commitment of advanced industrial states to a restrictive international financial order at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference and during the early postwar years. He then explains the growing political support for the globalization of financial markets after the late 1950s by analyzing…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/11/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836

Eric Helleiner is Professor and Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy, Department of Political Science and Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo.



Preface


Abbreviations



Introduction



The Restrictive Bretton Woods Financial Order



Bretton Woods and the Endorsement of Capital Controls



Continuing Caution: The Slow and Limited Move to Convertibility



The Reemergence of Global Finance



Support for the Euromarket in the 1960s



Failed Cooperation in the Early 1970s



Four Turning Points in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s



The Liberalization Trend in the 1980s



Weathering International Financial Crises



Conclusion



Explaining Differing State Behavior in Trade and Finance


Works Cited


Index