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The End of Laissez-Faire

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Atlantic Books
  • Economic policy
  • New York Times reviewed

A remarkable half-decade of statecraft began at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where, in the stately Mount Washington Hotel, representatives of forty-four nations spent the first week of July 1944 designing a system to restore the world's flow of money and commerce after the disruptions of World War II.