Título:
Three days at Camp David : how a secret meeting in 1971 transformed the global economy / Jeffrey E. Garten.
ISBN:
9780062887672
Autor personal:
Edición:
First edition.
Información de publicación:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
©2021
Descripción física:
435 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contenido:
Introduction -- Curtain up. Richard Nixon ascending ; The economic crisis ; A run on the dollar? -- The cast. Richard M. Nixon ; John B. Connally Jr. ; Paul A. Volcker Jr. ; Arthur F. Burns ; George P. Schultz ; Peter G. Peterson ; Other players: Paul W. McCracken and Henry A. Kissinger -- The weekend. The wolf at the door ; Friday, August 13 ; Saturday, August 14 ; Sunday, August 15 -- The finale. The aftermath ; The finishing line ; The long view ; The weekend in retrospect.
Síntesis:
"The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard--breaking the link between gold and the dollar--transforming the entire global monetary system"-- Provided by publisher.
Materia personal:
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
on1244277920
Disponibilidad:
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