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White and Keynes

by David Barmes

Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes (right)

At the Bretton Woods conference, Harry Dexter White (negotiating on behalf of the US) was the architect of the IMF, while John Maynard Keynes (negotiating on behalf of the UK) proposed an alternative which he called the International Clearing Union

David Barmes

David is carrying out Positive Money’s latest research on Escaping Growth Dependency. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Psychology from McGill University and is currently completing a master’s degree in Socio-Ecological Economics & Policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research mostly falls within the field of ecological macroeconomics, where he draws on approaches and insights from Ecological, Post-Keynesian, and Institutionalist Economics.

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