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  title info:
    title: Robert Triffin
    sub title: A Life
  name:
    name part: Maes, Ivo.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Pasotti, Ilaria.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Biographies
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press USA - OSO
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (263 p.).
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Triffin, Robert
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Triffin, Robert
  subject:
    topic: Economists
    geographic: Belgium
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Économistes
    geographic: Belgique
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  subject:
    topic: International Relations
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Economic Policy
  subject:
    topic: Public Policy
  subject:
    topic: Economists
  subject:
    geographic: Belgium
  classification: HB112.T75 M34 2021
  classification: 330.092 B
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    name:
      name part: Maes, Ivo
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,c2021
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    title info:
      title: Oxf Studies History Economics Ser
  identifier: 9780190081102
  identifier: 0190081104
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 201114
    record change date: 20260319182926.5
    record identifier: in00005719223
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng