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A Search for Solvency: Bretton Woods and the International Monetary System, 1941-1971

Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.
Reviewed by By William Diebold, Jr.
January 1976
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Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.
University of Texas Press
1975
355 pp.
$10.00

A very readable history of the creation of the Fund and Bank, using some documentary material not drawn on by others. A good reminder of how the American bankers fought the U.S. government on the Bretton Woods agreements.