With WWII still unresolved, intellectual battles were raging over how to create an enduring global monetary order. To settle the issue, world leaders convened in 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

The 1944 Bretton Woods conference will be remembered as enacting the global and financial power shift from a waning British empire towards an emerging American empire. Battles were still raging on ...

In 1944 the major world powers met at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire in the United States to organize an international monetary system that would alleviate many of the foreign-exchange ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement was negotiated in July 1944 by 44 countries at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Under the agreement, gold was the ...

In 1944, with the death machine of World War II still very much churning, the Bretton Woods conference saw delegates from 45 nations descend on New Hampshire to devise rules that would govern the post ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover innovation within the green/blue industrial revolution. The United Nations meeting at the Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton ...

“Laissez-faire is finished, the all-powerful market that is always right, that’s finished,” said Nicholas Sarkozy, speaking ex cathedra, last month. As a result, said the diminutive French president, ...