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REVIVING CONFIDENCE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2012

CAROL M. CONNELL
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Abstract

This paper examines two competing proposals for reforming and reviving confidence in the world monetary system, and the two economists, Robert Triffin and Fritz Machlup, who led the charge, one for centralized reserves, and the other for flexible exchange rates. Triffin would later claim that no one did more to ensure that floating exchange rates emerged the winner in the policy debate than Machlup because of his influence on academic economists and policy makers through the Bellagio Group conferences. The Bellagio Group conferences and Machlup’s leadership role are examined.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 293 - 320
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2012

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