Introduction / Naomi Lamoreaux and Ian Shapiro -- 1. The Political Economy of the Bretton Woods Agreements / Jeffry Frieden -- 2. The Monetary Role of Gold as the Original Sin of Bretton Woods / Barry Eichengreen -- 3. The Missing Bretton Woods Debate over Flexible Exchange Rates / Douglas A. Irwin -- 4. The Universally Keynesian Vision of Bretton Woods / James M. Boughton -- 5. Bretton Woods : The Parliamentary Debates in the United Kingdom / Andrew Bailey, Gordon Bannerman, and Cheryl Schonhardt- Bailey -- 6. A "Barbarous Relic" : The French, Gold, and the Demise of Bretton Woods / Michael J. Graetz and Olivia Briffault -- 7. Nutrition, Food, Agriculture, and the World Economy / Martin Daunton -- 8. Australia's Full- Employment Proposals at Bretton Woods : A Road Only Partly Taken / Selwyn Cornish and Kurt Schuler -- 9. How the Bretton Woods Negotiations Helped to Pioneer International Development / Eric Helleiner -- 10. The Operation and Demise of the Bretton Woods System, 1958-1971 / Michael D. Bordo -- 11. Japan and the Collapse of Bretton Woods / Frances McCall Rosenbluth and James Sundquist -- 12. The Multiple Contexts of Bretton Woods / Harold James -- Historical Documents. Articles of Agreement. Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund, July 22, 1944 -- Articles of Agreement of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, July 22, 1944 -- The White Plan. Preliminary Draft Outline of a Proposal for an International Stabilization Fund of the United and Associated Nations (Revised July 10, 1943) -- The Keynes Plan. Proposals for an International Clearing Union (April 1943) -- The French Plan. Suggestions Regarding International Monetary Relations (May 1943) -- The Australian Employment Agreement. The Employment Agreement -- The Joint Statement. Joint Statement by Experts on the Establishment of an International Monetary Fund (April 1944) -- The Final Act. Final Act (22 July 1944) -- Speeches and Debates. Speech by Lord Keynes on the International Monetary Fund Debate, House of Lords, May 23, 1944 -- Bretton Woods and International Cooperation, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury -- Lord Keynes's Speech at Inaugural Meeting of Governors of Fund and Bank, Savannah, 9 March 1946 -- Press Conference by Charles de Gaulle, Seeking the Abolition of the Gold Exchange Standard and a Return to the Gold Standard, February 4, 1965 -- Address to the Nation by Richard Nixon Outlining a New Economic Policy : "The Challenge of Peace" August 15, 1971.