The economic government of the world: 1933-2023

Part one: responding to the Great Depression

'The establishment of a sound national economy': the politics of the Great Depression

'Barren harvest': the World Monetary and Economic Conference, 1933

'Beggar my neighbor': the failures of the world economy, 1933-1939

'Escaping from backwardness': strategies of economic development

Part two: the Bretton Woods era

'Handling the English': lend lease, commercial policy and sterling balances

'A firm foundation': reforming the monetary system

'An integrated program': food, employment and commodities

'The threshold of the future': the Bretton Woods Agreement

'A financial Dunkirk': the United States, Britain and Germany

'Happier relations between all countries': the failure of the International Trade Organization

'Convertible currencies in the free world': sterling and Europe

'Damn it, we're a bank': contesting development

'A common detestation of colonialism': development, nationalism and the Cold War

'Competitive cooperation': the Kennedy round, the United States and the Common Market

'Progress towards self-sustaining growth': the development decade

Part three: Washington consensus

'Trying to live with an anomaly': the limits of Bretton Woods

'Benign neglect': closing the gold window

'Music without any middle C': the floating world

'A trade union of the poor': the new international economic order and the limits to growth

'Expansion of economic freedom': the rise of market liberalism

'Market fundamentalism': the Washington consensus and financial liberalization

'Rules-based system': creating the World Trade Organization

'Setting the bird free': Economies in transition

'Eurofantasies': from economic and monetary union to the euro

Part four: beyond neo-liberalism - 'Behaving badly': the global financial crisis

'Messy multilateralism': nationalism versus globalism

Fair capitalism and globalization: the way ahead.