Rebuilding the World
Year: 2023

Abstract This chapter covers the later Second World War years when a group of US ‘New Dealer’ economists helped set the scene for the post-war economic revival; this included the Bretton Woods institutions, the Marshall Plan in Europe, and the various plans for German economic recovery. It highlights the role of Harry Dexter White, the US Deputy Treasury Secretary, who debated the institutions for the new world economy with British economist Maynard Keynes. White was also one of a covert group o