Bretton Woods et le sommet du monde: Un jeu de puissances

Jean Siroen

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Abstract: The Bretton Woods conference has gone down in history as a "spirit" and a "system".The spirit expresses the desire of the countries allied against the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan) to found a stable, regulated economic order based on international cooperation. He casts into the dustbin of history the pre-war monetary and trade wars which had led to a series of disasters. "Win-win" should replace the "lose-lose" of pre-war "sacred selfishness".The system refers more concretely to the monetary and financial rules that will be adopted: currencies convertible to each other at a fixed (but adjustable) exchange rate with ultimate convertibility of the dollar into gold at its 1934 parity ($35 per ounce) which thus makes the American currency "as good as gold".

Keywords: Biens publics mondiaux; Géoéconomie; Géopolitique; Relations internationales; Etats-Unis; Europe; Japon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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Published in GéopoWeb, 2023

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