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Author Connell, Carol M

Title Reforming the World Monetary System : Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Series Financial HIST
Financial HIST
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; 1 A Crisis in Confidence; 2 Fritz Machlup, his Research and Methodology; 3 Robert Triffin and the Triffin Plan; 4 William Fellner and the Intersection of Macro and Microeconomics; 5 Why Economists Disagree: The Role of Framing in Consensus Building; 6 'Assuring the Free World's Liquidity' through Multiple Reserve Currencies; 7 Milton Friedman and the Arguments for Flexible versus Fixed Exchange Rates; 8 Collaboration with the Group of Ten
9 Adjustment Policies and Special Drawing Rights: Joint Meetings of Officials and Academics10 From the Bellagio Group to the Bürgenstock Conferences; 11 From the Bellagio Group and Joint Conferences of Officials and Academics to the Group of Thirty; 12 Reassessing the Bellagio Group's Impact on International Monetary Reform; 13 The Impact of the Bellagio Group on International Trade and Finance Scholarship from the 1960s to the Present; Conclusions; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary Focusing on Fritz Machlup, Connell presents the story of the Bellagio Group and its contribution to modern finance. Initiated by Machlup the Bellagio Group was made up of thirty-two non-government academic economists. During the years between 1964 and 1977 the Group met eighteen times and made a series of recommendations for policymakers
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317320418
1317320417