Archive for the ‘Bretton Woods’ Category

What Europe wants from Obama

Speigel Online: 5th November 2008

My hope is that the next US president will help build a new, more just, stable and sustainable global financial architecture, vital for balance and stability in the world economy, but also for the eco-system…

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The new Bretton Woods: economies of scale.

21st October, 2008

A new Bretton Woods: To save economies and the planet, we must tame markets,upsize the state, and downsize the global single market.  This piece is derived loosely from the book I edited at the new economics foundation “Real World Economic Outlook” (Palgrave, 2006). The proposal for an International Clearing Agency draws on John Maynard Keynes’ proposal for an International Clearing Union, but also on additional insights by Jane D’Arista of the Financial Markets Center in the US.

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Ann Pettifor on BBC Radio 4: Return of Bretton Woods?

The World Tonight, Monday 14th October, 2008, 10.38pm.

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Why the bail-out would not work… on BBC News Online

Monday, 29 September, 2008.

Is Warren Buffett right? If this bail-out had been passed by congress, would it have halted the meltdown?

I don’t believe so. Here’s why…

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