Global Imbalances And The Lessons Of Bretton Woods Robert B. Westbrook By the author of the

By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys

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Global Imbalances And The Lessons Of Bretton Woods Robert B. Westbrook By the author of theWhy the current Bretton Woods like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable. In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods , Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the argument that today's international financial system is largely analogous to the Bretton Woods System of the period 1958 to 1973. Then, as