ביולי 1944 התכנסו בכירי הכלכלנים מ-44 מדינות בעולם במלון בעיירה קטנה בצפון ארה"ב, בחרו בדולר האמריקאי כמטבע הרזרבה העולמי והחליטו על הקמת קרן המטבע הבינ"ל והבנק העולמי.
בפרק השלישי והאחרון במיני-סדרה על הסדר המוניטרי הבינ"ל, אנחנו חוזרים אל האירוע שבו נקבעו כללי המשחק לעולם של אחרי מלחמת העולם השנייה. ד"ר אוהד בר-אפרת האחראי על הקשרים הבינ"ל בבנק ישראל וד"ר איתמר כספי מחטיבת המחקר של הבנק, מנתחים את וועידת ברטון וודס, האינטרסים והכלכלנים שעמדו מאחוריה ואלו מהישגיה עמדו במבחן הזמן.
רשימת קריאה להרחבה בנושאים שעליהם שוחחנו בפרק:
1. Federal Reserve History: “Creation of the Bretton Woods System”
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/bretton-woods-created
2. Library of Congress: “Bretton Woods and the Birth of the IMF and the World Bank”
https://guides.loc.gov/this-month-in-business-history/july/bretton-woods-conference
3. Benn Steil, The Battle of Bretton Woods
https://www.cfr.org/book/battle-bretton-woods
4. Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
https://books.google.com/books/about/Globalizing_Capital.html?id=wciXDwAAQBAJ
5. Federal Reserve History: “Nixon Ends Convertibility of U.S. Dollars to Gold and Announces Wage/Price Controls” https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/gold-convertibility-ends
6. Planet Money: "The Dollar at the Center of the World" https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/07/16/331743569/episode-552-the-dollar-at-the-center-of-the-world
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