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Great Architects of International Finance Who were the great thinkers on international finance in the mid-twentieth century? What did they propose should be done to create a stable inter- national financial order for promoting world trade and economic growth? This book studies the ideas of some of the most innovative economists in the mid-twentieth century including three Nobel Laureates. These great thinkers helped shape the international financial system and the role of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. This book covers the period from the late 1940s up to the collapse of the fixed US dollar–gold link in 1971. The impact of Hansen, Williams, Graham, Triffin, Simons, Viner, Friedman, Johnson, Mises, Rueff, Rist, Hayek, Heilperin, Röpke, Harrod and Mundell is assessed. This book will prove invaluable to students of international economics, international finance, economic history and the history of economic thought. Anthony M. Endres is Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Business and Economics, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Routledge international studies in money and banking 1 Private Banking in Europe Lynn Bicker 2 Bank Deregulation and Monetary Order George Selgin 3 Money in Islam A study in Islamic political economy Masudul Alam Choudhury 4 The Future of European Financial Centres Kirsten Bindemann 5 Payment Systems in Global Perspective Maxwell J. Fry, Isaak Kilato, Sandra Roger, Krzysztof Senderowicz, DavidSheppard, Francisco Solis and John Trundle 6 What is Money? 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Endres First published 2005 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2005 Anthony M. Endres All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-02214-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-32412-2 Contents List of tables x Preface xi Abbreviations xiii 1 Essential elements of a doctrinal approach 1 The primacy of ideas 1 On the intellectual architecture of the international financial order 3 Choice of great architects 5 Economic ideas and international financial policy: normative issues 8 Main purposes of a doctrinal perspective 10 2 The Bretton Woods financial order – a distinctive economic doctrine 14 Some intellectual background 14 Bretton Woods: first principles 18 Commentary 22 Policy assignment guidelines at Bretton Woods: a reconstruction 28 Conclusion 31 3 Alvin Hansen’s Keynesian interpretation of Bretton Woods 35 An American Keynesian at Bretton Woods 35 Clarifying the BW exchange rate principle 38 Promoting international economic stability through monetary and fiscal policies 44 viii Contents International action to combat secular stagnation and underdevelopment 49 Conclusion 52 4 John Williams’s ‘key currency’ alternative for the internationalfinancial order 56 International monetary problems in the interwar years: a view from Harvard 56 Williams’s reaction to Bretton Woods and his alternative 62 Principal criticisms of the key currency architecture 68 Other policies essential to the key currency architecture 72 Summary and assessment 75 5 Frank Graham on international money and exchange rates 79 Graham’s critique of gold standards 79 Heretical pronouncements on BW principles 84 The commodity reserve standard proposal 89 A plan for full employment and price stability after BW 93 Conclusion 99 6 Robert Triffin’s supranational central bank: a plan to stabilizeliquidity 102 Intellectual background 102 Triffin’s revisionist views on the operation of the gold standard 103 New ‘canons’ of international financial behaviour: qualified support for BW 107 The key currency convertibility crisis 112 The supranational bank proposal and its limitations 116 Concluding reflections on Triffin’s policy assignment guidelines 122 7 A Chicagoan international financial order 127 A Chicagoan tradition on international financial reform? 127 Reactions to BW: Simons and Viner 128 Milton Friedman’s case for flexible exchange rates 135 Friedman’s monetary and fiscal framework for international stability 140 Contents ix Harry Johnson’s renewed case for flexible exchange rates 144 Policy assignment rules for a Chicagoan international financial order 147 8 Reconstructing the international gold standard: European perspectives 150 A genuine gold-based international financial order: the Mises ideal 150 The bastardized interwar gold standard and an alternative to BW 153 Mid-twentieth-century gold standard doctrine 158 Mid-twentieth-century gold standard doctrine: a synthesis? 170 9 Salvaging the fixed exchange rate architecture: the ideas of RoyHarrod and Robert Mundell 176 Roy Harrod’s advocacy of a rise in the price of gold 176 Harrod on IMF renovations: the case of SDRs 180 Harrod’s principles for domestic policy in a reformed BW architecture 184 Robert Mundell on the failing BW order, circa1965–71 188 The currency area option 195 Reforming the BW financial architecture? 198 10 The plurality of international financial architectures in the BW era 204 Implications arising from the architecture metaphor 204 Principal beliefs embodied in various architectures 208 A plurality of financial architectures: some lessons from our survey 212 Notes 217 Bibliography 237 Index 254
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