Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance
Jean F Crombois
Financial History
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As a businessman, financier, diplomat, minister and the first managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Camille Gutt (1884–1971) was involved in all the important financial negotiations that took place between the 1920s and the 1950s. Crombois uses Gutt’s personal archives to examine the rise and fall of financial diplomacy as a largely private enterprise. He looks at how financial diplomacy and official diplomacy differed, and confronts the confusion between private and public interests, the high level of informality in the financial sector and the growth of postwar self-identification with national interests.
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Readership
Economic and Financial History, Twentieth-Century Studies
Contents
Introduction
1 Camille Gutt, Finance and Politics (1919–40)
2 Belgian War Financial Diplomacy: Negotiating the Belgian Contribution to the War Effort
3 Financial Diplomacy in London During the Second World War: Towards a New Monetary Order?
4 Attendng the Benelux Agreements: Regional Integration as an Alternative to the Anglo-American Plans
5 The Birth of a Monetary System: Camille Gutt and Bretton Woods (1943–4)
6 Camille Gutt, First Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (1946–51)
Conclusion
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