65 Years After the Bretton Woods Agreement

In July of 1944, as World War II was nearing its final days, 730 delegates from 44 Allied nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. There, they agreed on an international monetary structure that would govern financial and commercial relations among the world’s leading economies and prevent repeats of the economic disasters of the 1930’s. They set up the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Although an improvement, the IMF and World Bank have been far from perfect. We’ll reassess the two major organizations that came from the conference.

Guests

• Ross Gittell economist, professor of Management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire and forecast manager at the New England Economic Partnership
• Andy Bernard, Jack Byrne Professor of International Economics and the director of the Center for International Business at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business
• James Boughton, historian of the International Monetary Fund and assistant director in the IMF's Strategy, Policy, and Review Department