Interdependence in the World economic system Prosperity has no fixed limits The compromise unravels Richesse oblige: the establishment of convertibility Development and Bretton Woods The heyday of Bretton Woods and the reserve debate Surveillance, Growth, and crisis The end of Bretton woods Reform of the international monetary system, or nonsystem? Personalities and institutions: the redesigning of the international monetary order the 1970´s: Capital markets versus the new international economic order the debt crisis Consensus in cooperation and its fragility The problems of the new regionalism Low-income countries and the international financial system Plan or price? The transformation of centrally planned economies From Bretton woods to the information age