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Kontroversen in der internationalen Waehrungspolitik. Retrospektive zu Keynes-White-Boughton und IMF

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  • Elke Muchlinski

    (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institut fuer Wirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftsgeschichte)

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This paper provides textual evidence that Boughton’s interpretation of Keynes’s proposals for shaping the international monetary system of the post-war period misses the point. I want to investigate two points which contradict Boughton’s interpretation published by the International Monetary Fund. Boughton states that White won the battle against Keynes because White was determined to create a multilateral system whereas Keynes favoured bilateral financial support to Britain by the U.S.A. I submit that Keynes’s view on the function of the International Clearing Union (I.C.U.) was first of all to encourage both creditor and debtor countries to avoid trade imbalances. Second, as Keynes mentioned, the I.C.U. was not to be implemented as a "multiplicity of bilateral arrangements". Here we find the thrust of his view of the post-war period – avoiding bilateral arrangements because he believed that bilateralism could cause a new war.

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  • Elke Muchlinski, 2005. "Kontroversen in der internationalen Waehrungspolitik. Retrospektive zu Keynes-White-Boughton und IMF," European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 2(1), pages 57-73.
  • Handle: RePEc:elg:ejeepi:v:2:y:2005:i:1:p:57-73
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    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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