http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
With an emphasis on the ideas that shaped the postwar international system, Robert Triffin: A Life explores both the man and his work. This biography evaluates what made Triffin a crucial figure in modern economic history, tracing Triffin's story from a child of the interwar period to his key role in European integration and ultimately the euro.
Cover -- Series -- Robert Triffin -- Copyright -- Photo -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface by Jacques de Larosière -- Introduction: A Monk in Economist's Clothing -- Abbreviations -- 1 A Child of the Interwar Period -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Early years -- 1.3 Economics at Louvain and the Belgian franc devaluation of 1935 -- 1.4 Graduate studies at Harvard -- 1.5 The theory of currency overvaluation and the 1935 Belgian devaluation -- 1.6 Monopolistic competition theory -- 1.7 A difficult year in Belgium and return to Harvard -- 2 Money Doctor in Latin America -- 2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the early 1940s -- 2.3 Triffin's vision of the Latin American economies -- 2.4 Triffin's Latin American missions -- 2.5 Triffin's global view on the international monetary system -- 3 Architect of the European Payments Union -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The early years of the International Monetary Fund -- 3.3 The European economy and the Marshall Plan -- 3.4 Triffin and the exchange rate issue -- 3.5 Triffin and the creation of the European Payments Union -- 3.6 The German payments crisis -- 3.7 Triffin's search for a destination
3.8 Triffin's retrospective view of the European Payments Union -- 4 Bretton Woods Cassandra -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Yale and the Vietnam War -- 4.3 Europe and the money muddle -- 4.4 Gold and the dollar crisis -- 4.5 Reform debates in the 1960s -- 4.6 The demise of the Bretton Woods system -- 4.7 The paper-​dollar standard -- 5 Monetary Expert on Monnet's Action Committee for the United States of Europe -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 A strong advocate of the European Payments Union approach -- 5.3 The Rome Treaty -- 5.4 The campaign for a European Reserve Fund
5.5 The 1969 Hague Summit and the Werner Report -- 6 Return to Belgium -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 IMS: The international monetary scandal -- 6.3 The European Monetary System -- 6.4 The development of the private ECU market -- 7 Epilogue -- Sources -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Description based upon print version of record.
Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,c2021