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Now that the us has become a debtor country itself perhaps there will be a better understanding of what keynes was trying to achieve

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Its a shame that our govements and our educational systems prefer to keep us ignorants

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Do not miss this great pice of historic work you wont regreat it

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Every american that can read should put this on hisher list of books to read

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I wanted one that was told in part through the lives and personalities of the people who created the system

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Benn steils the battle of bretton woods reveals a shocking chapter in the history of american foreign policy

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In writing the battle of bretton woods steil was clearly committed to assessing what was bargained for at breton woods the new multilateral institutions that would finance the completion of world war ii and the reconstruction following it and the primacy of the us dollar as reserve currency and this he does deftly with a firm appreciation for the issues the objectives and the shortcomings at each turn

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Keynes filled a room with his presence but represented a great economic power on its back a debtor nation if ever there was as world war ii would virtually bankrupt the uk