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Three Days at Camp David : How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed The Global Economy
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"The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard-breaking the link between gold and the dollar-transforming the entire global monetary system"-- Provided by publisher.
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"A densely detailed and highly charged account of the Nixon administration's abandonment of the gold standard ..."
"This is not the book to read if you want to better understand the arguments for and against free-floating currencies, or the causes of inflation and depression."
"Garten's lucid, easy-to-grasp exposition focuses on international turmoil in exchange rates and trade ..."
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