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At the Origins of European Monetary Cooperation: Triffin, Bretton Woods, and the European Payments Union

In: Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe

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  • Pierre-Hernan Rojas

    (Catholic Institute of Paris)

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This chapter explores how the economic and political difficulties of the interwar period and the immediate postwar era forced politicians, economists, and institutions to rethink the European economic and monetary system. Triffin was a key figure in that dynamic and quick to spot the fundamental dilemma of international economic relations. The failure of the Bretton Woods system to restore multilateralism order led Triffin to consider that the regional approach was the appropriate level to achieve a stable international economic order. This vision gave birth to the European Payments Union in 1950 whose success produced the conditions to deal with monetary integration in depth in Europe.

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  • Pierre-Hernan Rojas, 2021. "At the Origins of European Monetary Cooperation: Triffin, Bretton Woods, and the European Payments Union," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Alexandre M. Cunha & Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (ed.), Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe, chapter 0, pages 139-178, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-47102-6_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47102-6_6
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