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Author:   Atish R. Ghosh ,  Fabio Masini
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.680kg
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9781032902029

ISBN 10:   1032902027
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   17 November 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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ntroduction - The Roads Not Taken Atish Rex Ghosh and Fabio Masini Resource-based International Currency: A History of a Failed Consensual Idea Nikolay Nenovsky Champions of Free Trade: The Peruvian Proposal for a Conference on Commercial Policy at Bretton Woods César Castillo-García Five Debates at the Creation of the International Monetary Fund Atish Rex Ghosh Four Roads not Taken at Bretton Woods: International Financial Proposals Ahead of their Time Eric Helleiner Bretton Woods, and the problem of sovereign defaults during the early phase Juan Huitzilihuit Flores Zendejas Paths not Taken with the American Payments Imbalance: Bureaucratic Responses in the IMF, OECD, and BIS, 1960 to 1971 Kathryn Lavelle SDRs and Development Finance: Uncovering the Early 1970s Debate Albertina Nania A Failed Attempt towards a Multilayered Safety Net: The Asian Monetary Fund Fabio Masini Evolution of Gender and Anti-Discrimination Policies at the International Monetary Fund: A Historical Analysis Saliha Metinsoy A Critical Road Not Taken? Assessing IMF Inclusive Growth and Frameworks of Technocratic Progressive Taxation in the post-2008 Era Mark Hibben Luxembourg’s Role in Forging Post-war Financial Governance: Knowledge, Leadership, Diplomacy Elena Danescu The Governance of the Bretton Woods Institutions: Ambitious but Failed Goals? Susanna Cafaro

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Atish R. Ghosh is the Historian of the International Monetary Fund. His recent work has focused on issues related to the stability of the international monetary system. He has published numerous influential studies on international policy coordination and exchange rate regimes, including three books: Economic Cooperation in an Uncertain World (1994), Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences (2003), and Currency Boards in Retrospect and Prospect (2008). Fabio Masini is Professor of Theories and History of International Political Economy at Roma Tre University and Secretary General of Robert Triffin International. His main areas of research concern the history of economics of regional and global economic and monetary integration. His last book was on European Economic Governance: Theories, Historical Evolution, and Reform Proposals (2022) and he recently edited 80 Years after Bretton Woods. Relaunching Multilateralism through Regional Monetary Unions (2025).

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