The End of Laissez-Faire
Subtitle: National Purpose and the Global Economy After the Cold War
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812214017
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Economics - General; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Development - Economic Development; Business & Economics / Government & Business
First sentence: 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.