The Battle Of Bretton Woods

Contents

1. introduction

2. the word comes to the white mountains

3. the improbable rise of harry white

4. maynard keynes the monetary menace

5. the most unsordid act

6. the best-laid plans of white and keynes

7. white
8. history is made

9. begging like fala

10. out with the old order, in with the new

 

Charactors

White. (The decision maker of Bretton Woods)

• Some people say White was the spy of SU.
• Japanese would never accect White's demands.
• His behavior shows that he was no puppet of Soviet intelligence,
• 1941 was promoted as an assistant secretary of the Treasury

Keynes. 

• The economist in England.
• Someone has a different thought from White.
• Keynes's rise was seemed effortless and preordained.
• Duncan Grant was his lover in 1911.
• In 1912, he wrote a book about the gold-exchange.
• He concluded that a dollar of new public spending would generate at least two dollars of additional output
• The General Theroy had on the economics profession. It virtually established macroeconomics as a discipline.
• Keynes did not believe a policy of chasing aggrement with Hitler

Bill

• His thought and idea is similar to White
• To stop Japanese to invade China, 

Pavlov

• Met White at a restaurant.
• He visited to China.

Morgenthau

• White's boss
• Promoted White on Dec 9, 1941.

This is a book about ecomonic. Britain and US both wanted to dominate the world ecomoniclly. Keynes and White were the two main characters in this battle. Keynes perhaps knows more knowledge, but White successfully won this battle in Bretton Woods.