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11 de jun. de 2009 · Harry Dexter White is remembered today as the “other” founding father of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, almost always as an afterthought as homage is paid to his far more renowned British counterpart, John Maynard Keynes. In the months leading up to and beyond the U.S. entry into World War II, White and Keynes ...
Second, after the end of the war, when White had become famous as the author of the Bretton Woods agreements, two notorious fabulists told the FBI, and later the general public, that White was a spy for the Soviets. One, Elizabeth Bentley, had been a member of the Silvermaster group. She turned informant for the FBI and eventually linked White ...
Harry Dexter White and the Design of the International Monetary Fund Prepared by James M. Boughton1 January 2006 Abstract This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy.
31 de dic. de 2016 · Two economists designed the main features of the charter of the IMF during World War II: John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White. Several of those features are attributable primarily to White, including the adoption of fixed but adjustable exchange rates, the funding of operations with national currencies deposited by member states, extending credits through currency swaps rather than ...
James Boughton. Important contributions by one of the International Monetary Fund’s main founders are often overlooked. “We cannot expect a boy to do a man’s job,” Harry Dexter White wrote of the IMF just two years after it opened, calling on both it and the World Bank to have the capacity to match their responsibilities. “The job has ...
21 de jul. de 2019 · Harry Dexter White charla con John Maynard Keynes (derecha) en 1946. Hointernational Monetary Fund AFP. Julio de 1944. La Segunda Guerra Mundial parece decidida.
19 de ene. de 2004 · Harry Dexter White: un comunista en el FMI. Si algo ha hecho famoso al Fondo Monetario Internacional, a lo largo de los últimos cincuenta años, han sido las manifestaciones públicas de repulsa ...
