Download from Bretton Woods to the non-system

ESHR016-13 International financial system: from Bretton Woods
to the non-system (4-0-4)
Syllabus:
Constitution of the Bretton Woods System and the gold-dollar pattern. Hegemony of the
dollar. The end of gold-dollar pattern. Eurodollars and oil-dollars. The financial globalization:
movements of capital and financial crises. Financial liberalization and its impact on the
dependent economies. Rise of financialization and its characteristics. Types and styles of
speculation. Role of the IMF. Trajectory of national-“developmentalism” and the foreign debt.
Recommended Courses:
Introduction to Economy.
Required texts:
● EICHEGREEN, Barry. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary
System. Princeton University Press. Second Edition, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-691-13937
● GILPIN, Robert. Global political economy: understanding the international economic
order. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 2001. ISBN: 0-691-08676-1
● OCAMPO, José Antonio; KREGEL, Jan; GRIFFITH-JONES, Stephany. International Finance
and Development. United Nations, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-84277-861-6
● STUBBS, Richard; UNDERHILL, Geoffrey, R. D. Political economy and the Changing
Global Order. 3ª edição, Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0195419894.
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AMSDEN, Alice H. Escape from Empire: the developing world´s journey through heaven
and hell. Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-262-01234-8
CHESNAIS, François. A Finança mundializada: raízes sociais e políticas, configuração,
consequências. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2005. ISBN: 85-7559-069-3
EICHENGREEN, Barry. Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton. Woods
Cambridge/London MIT Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-262-05084-5
FERGUSON, Niall. The Ascent of Money. A financial history of the world. London: Penguin
Group, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-846-14106-5
STIGLITZ, Joseph E. Globalization and its discontents. New York: W.W. Norton & Company
Inc., 2002.
STRANGE, Susan (Ed). Paths to International Political Economy. Oxon/ New York:
Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 978-0415578738.