International Financial System

The IMF, the World Bank, and the global financial architecture.

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1. The International Financial System

A history of how the gold standard, the Bretton Woods institutions, and the modern architecture of the IMF, the World Bank, and the wider global financial system evolved from the nineteenth century to the crises and debates of today.