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Informationen zum Autor Filippo Cesarano is the head of the Historical Research Office of the Bank of Italy. He studied at the University of Rome and the University of Chicago and has been a Research Fellow at the Netherlands School of Economics and a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard, and the Hoover Institution. As an economist at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy, he has worked in the fields of monetary theory, international economics, and the history of economic analysis. He has published articles in the American Economic Review, History of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of International Economics, among others. Klappentext This book argues that advances in monetary theory played a decisive role in the Bretton Woods Agreements of July 1944. Zusammenfassung The momentous transformations of the international monetary system after World War I culminated in the epochal transition from gold-based money to inconvertible paper money half a century later. This book argues that advances in monetary theory played a decisive role in these major events! particularly the Bretton Woods Agreements of 1944. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. International monetary equilibrium and the properties of the gold standard; 3. The international monetary system between the world wars; 4. The monetary system in economic analysis: the critique of the gold standard; 5. The Great Depression: overturning the state of the art; 6. Providing for a new monetary order; 7. The Bretton Woods Agreements; 8. Bretton Woods and after.
