THE DIARY OF FREDERIC HARMER

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 33-107
Keyword(s):  
Civil Servant ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
King's College

Forgive me writing to you after an interval of what I think must be forty-five years. Let me explain why I am writing. In the process of tidying up my room in the Marshall library, I found a diary of the Bretton Woods Conference. It was a typescript copy on foolscap paper. It was fascinating. It was obviously written by someone very much more alive and intelligent than the ordinary Treasury civil servant. By a process of elimination, I arrived at you as the almost certain author. I sent it to Donald Moggridge, who has edited the Bretton Woods volume in our Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. He confirmed that it was not among the Keynes papers in the King's College archive.

Cambridge

Leonard Woolf ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Fred Leventhal ◽  
Peter Stansky
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
Good Friend ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
Bloomsbury Group ◽  
King's College ◽  
Close Friendships ◽  
Lytton Strachey

Woolf went to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Classics. There probably the more important part of his education was the close friendships he formed with Lytton Strachey and Clive Bell as well as John Maynard Keynes from King’s College, Cambridge. Leonard, Strachey, and Keynes were all members of the Apostles, a small select secret discussion group, very much under the influence of the philosopher G. E. Moore. This shaped his ideas about politics, art, and the importance of friendship. At Trinity he also became a good friend of Thoby Stephen, brother of Virginia and Vanessa Stephen. Through these friendships the Bloomsbury Group would come into existence some years later. He also began to write, but in the first instance largely poetry.

‘No One in Our Age was Cleverer …’

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-136
Author(s):  
Alan Bollard
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
General Theory ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Imf

As troops massed on the border, John Maynard Keynes had to hastily cut short a holiday in France. A government advisor, academic, journalist, and polymath, he spent the next few years working on pioneering and highly innovative economic ideas: how to pay for the war, how to apply his ground-breaking ‘General Theory’ to policy, how to avoid repeating the mistakes of Versailles, and how to set up an international clearing exchange at Bretton Woods that would eventually become the IMF. As Germany turned on the Soviet Union, Keynes became very worried about his Russian in-laws caught up in the terrible siege of Leningrad.

Bretton Woods and the Keynesian State

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-103
Author(s):  
Jeremy Green
Keyword(s):  
International Political Economy ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
New Era ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Financial Infrastructure ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Keynesian Economic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
City Of London

This chapter challenges the traditional international political economy (IPE) interpretation of Bretton Woods, which views it as the marker for a new era of US hegemony. Stressing the “uneven interdependence” characteristic of the postwar Anglo-American relationship, it reveals the continuing mutual dependencies between the two states and their expression within the formation of Bretton Woods. The UK's role in the creation and dynamics of Bretton Woods went far beyond the ideas of John Maynard Keynes. The continued importance of both sterling as a major international currency and of the financial infrastructure contained within the City of London, allied to the international limits of private US finance, ensured that the development of UK capitalism continued to be fundamental to postwar international finance. Tracing the struggle between economic orthodoxy and emergent Keynesian ideas within the national political economies of the UK and the US, the chapter shows that the continuing relevance of pre-Keynesian economic orthodoxy—represented most influentially by transatlantic bankers—laid the basis for the subsequent undermining of Bretton Woods and the relaunching of financial globalization from the 1950s.

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