American power and policy

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Uses archival evidence to provide unique insights into US economics, focusing on the origins of the IMF, building a multilateral strategy for the US, the Great Inflation of the 1970s, and on Marriner S. Eccles, Lauchlin Currie, Allyn Young, John H. Williams and Arthur I. Bloomfield. American in the shadows : Harry Dexter White and the design of the International Monetary Fund / James M. Boughton -- Building up a multilateral strategy for the United States : Alvin Hansen, Jacob Viner, and the Council on Foreign Relations (1939-45) / Sebastiano Nerozzi -- A hands-off central banker? : Marriner S. Eccles and the Federal Reserve, 1934-51 / Matías Vernengo -- The great inflation of the 1970s : evidence from the archives / John Lodewijks and Robert Leeson -- An archival case study : revisiting The life and political economy of Lauchlin Currie / Roger J. Sandilands -- New evidence on Allyn Young's style and influence as a teacher / Roger J. Sandilands -- A scholar in action in interwar America : John H. Williams on trade theory and Bretton Woods / Pier Francesco Asso and Luca Fiorito -- Shaping monetary constitutions for developing countries : some archival evidence on the Bloomfield Missions to South Korea (1949-50) / Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Asso