{"title":"Benn Steil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBenn Steil\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into global economic history and international finance. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eThe Battle of Bretton Woods\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into pivotal moments that have shaped the modern financial landscape, making complex subjects accessible and engaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders seeking a deeper understanding of economic policy, diplomacy, and the forces behind global monetary systems will find Steil’s writings both informative and thought-provoking. His careful analysis is well suited for those interested in education and reference materials related to economics and history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-battle-of-bretton-woods-by-benn-steil-9780691162379","title":"The Battle of Bretton Woods","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for \u003cem\u003ea new Bretton Woods\u003c\/em\u003e to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords, however, is full of startling drama, intrigue, and rivalry, which are vividly brought to life in Benn Steil's epic account. Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, Steil shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury, aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the drama were the antipodal characters of John Maynard Keynes, the renowned and revolutionary British economist, and Harry Dexter White, the dogged, self-made American technocrat. Bringing to bear new and striking archival evidence, Steil offers the most compelling portrait yet of the complex and controversial figure of White—the architect of the dollar's privileged place in the Bretton Woods monetary system, who also, very privately, admired Soviet economic planning and engaged in clandestine communications with Soviet intelligence officials and agents over many years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn, \u003cem\u003eThe Battle of Bretton Woods\u003c\/em\u003e is destined to become a classic of economic and political history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432809119980,"sku":"9780691162379","price":65.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691162379.jpg?v=1774766384"},{"product_id":"the-battle-of-bretton-woods-by-benn-steil-9780691149097","title":"The Battle of Bretton Woods","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. 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