Why There Will Be No New Bretton Woods
Benn Steil's Wall Street Journal op-ed explains the unique historical circumstances in which the Bretton Woods international monetary system...
Speaker: Sheila A. Smith, Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer, Council on Foreign Relations
August 27, 2009
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