Event Date: October 8, 2014 - 5:00 pm
Location: Videoconference
ERIC HELLEINER, University of Waterloo.
Presented by CIPS, the International Political Economy Network (IPEN) and the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.
Free.In English. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
70 years since the IMF and World Bank were founded, this roundtable looks at what we can learn about its original foundations, celebrating Eric Helleiner’s new book on the subject:
“Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods”
Eric Helleiner’s new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank—the key international financial institutions of the postwar global economic order. Critics of Bretton Woods have argued that its architects devoted little attention to international development issues or the concerns of poorer countries. On the basis of extensive historical research and access to new archival sources, Helleiner challenges these assumptions, providing a major reinterpretation that will interest all those concerned with the politics and history of the global economy, North-South relations, and international development.
Roundtable discussion participants:
Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa; Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa; Randall Germain, Carleton University; Juliet Johnson, McGill University; Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo; Cristina Rojas, Carleton University;
Read more (on the book website)