布雷顿森林货币战：美元如何统治世界






Name: The Battle of Bretton Woods
Author: Benn Steil

Introduction:

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords, however, is full of startling drama, intrigue, and rivalry, which are vividly brought to life in Benn Steil's epic account.

Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, Steil shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival. At the heart of the drama were the antipodal characters of John Maynard Keynes, the renowned and revolutionary British economist, and Harry Dexter White, the dogged, self-made American technocrat. Bringing to bear new and striking archival evidence, Steil offers the most compelling portrait yet of the complex and controversial figure of White--the architect of the dollar's privileged place in the Bretton Woods monetary system, who also, very privately, admired Soviet economic planning and engaged in clandestine communications with Soviet intelligence officials and agents over many years.

A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn,The Battle of Bretton Woods is destined to become a classic of economic and political history.

这次没有英文原版，以后拿到英文原版会立即补充。这个书的质量很不错，下面有截图。

下面是百度给出的中文简介。

内容简介

一部讲述美元与英镑决斗的著作，居然席卷欧美，口碑销量俱佳，让人吃惊不已。作为早已“作古”的事件，布雷顿森林的往事有何魅力重新吸引当代人的视线呢？
原来，历史再次走到了一个特殊时刻：世界如何重新建立一个国际货币新秩序？人民币有能力挑战美元的主导地位吗？这些问题，人们在回顾布雷顿森林的故事后，都能找到答案。
一方面，当时身为巨大债权国和贸易顺差国的美国，能以一场会议、一纸合约终结英国对世界贸易和金融的控制权，这背后的世界形势、外交风云、政治博弈颇值得探究。而作者把布雷顿森林会议作为连接点，将一战二战、马歇尔计划、国际金融体系、中美问题统统贯通起来，使整部作品相当有深度、有广度、有经济政治战略的高度。
另一方面，《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《金融时报》齐齐称道本书的历史细节扣人心弦、充满娱乐性的同时，又左右着历史的方向。代表英国谈判的凯恩斯，虽然思想光耀千古，却在决定性时刻难敌美国谈判代表怀特。更不为人所知的是，一手缔造了布雷顿森林体系的怀特，竟然是苏联情报人员，于是布雷顿森林会议的走向和结果都受到了不可思议的影响，包括国际货币基金组织和世界银行的今日格局。
历史令人着迷又发人深省。今天，美国的许多论调与当年破产的英国如出一辙，而中国则采纳了当年美国人所持的观点。真实的货币战争远比想象得更为复杂、更不可思议。请让我们牢记1944年那次伟大尝试失败的原因。
作者简介本·斯泰尔（Benn Steil）
美国外交关系学会国际经济部主任、高级研究员，曾任英国皇家国际事务研究所国际经济部主任。以上两个机构分别是美国和英国研究国际关系问题的顶尖智库。斯泰尔的研究领域是国际金融、货币问题、金融市场、经济史。
斯泰尔与萨尔瓦多前财政部长曼努埃尔·海因兹联合撰写的《货币、市场与主权》荣获2010年哈耶克图书奖。