Author profile: Joe Simone

When and Why did Opinion Shift Decisively from Favoring the Bretton Woods System to Floating Exchange Rates?

Joe Simone • Nov 15 2009 • Essays

Shifts in opinion from favoring the fixed regime to favoring the floating regime illustrated that something fundamental changed in the 1960s and early 1970s. The fundamental change was that the international post-war economic system was on the verge of collapse.

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