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Remaking the Postwar World Economy

Robot and British Policy in the 1950s

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  • © 2003

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  1. Peter Burnham

    1. University of Warwick, England

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Britain, Bretton Woods and the Crisis of the World Economy, 1945–1951

    • Peter Burnham
    Pages 1-19

  3. Emergency Action and the Route to Floating Rate Convertibility

    • Peter Burnham
    Pages 20-40

  4. Operation Robot: Restructuring the Domestic and the World Economy

    • Peter Burnham
    Pages 41-70

  5. The Battle over Robot

    • Peter Burnham
    Pages 71-88

  6. Robot Walks Again

    • Peter Burnham
    Pages 89-106

  7. The Collective Approach to Freer Trade and Currencies

    • Peter Burnham
    Pages 107-125

  8. Anglo-American Negotiations and a New Bank Route to Convertibility

    • Peter Burnham
    Pages 126-154

  9. From Suez to Operation Unicorn

    • Peter Burnham
    Pages 155-174

  10. Conclusion: Bretton Woods and British Decline

    • Peter Burnham
    Pages 175-185

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 186-236
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Peter Burnham presents a detailed, archive-based account of the keys aspects of international monetary relations in the 1950s focusing in particular on Anglo-American policy surrounding the restoration of sterling convertibility. He argues that in 1952 the British government had a unique opportunity to take an almost revolutionary step in the external field to transform the international political economy (through the abolition of the fixed rate system, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Payments Union) and restructure Britain's domestic economy to tackle longstanding productivity, export and labour market problems.

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  • University of Warwick, England

    Peter Burnham

About the author

PETER BURNHAM is Reader in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He teaches in the areas of British politics and international political economy. Previous publications include The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction.

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