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THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM: THE NEXT STAGE

W.M. SCAMMELL (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)

Journal of Economic Studies

ISSN: 0144-3585

Article publication date: 1 January 1974

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Abstract

In August, 1971 the Bretton Woods system of international monetary relations ended, “not with a bang but a whimper”. The so‐called Nixon measures signalled a change of arrangements and attitudes which put the world on notice that the United States was no longer prepared to fill the key role in that system. From that moment forward, makeshift arrangements have provided an uneasy interregnum, while the Committee of Twenty distill from the experience of the past and the wisdom of the present the essence of a new system.

Citation

SCAMMELL, W.M. (1974), "THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM: THE NEXT STAGE", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 30-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb008035

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