Robert Skidelsky

'''Richard M. Goodwin''' ( February 24, 1913 - August 13, 1996 ) was an American mathematician and economist. All text, either derivative works from Wikipedia Articles or original content shared here, is licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License A full list of the authors of the original content can be found in the following subdomain of wikipedia, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Skidelsky_(economist) (Economists: Post Keynesian...

'''Richard M. Goodwin''' ( February 24, 1913 - August 13, 1996 ) was an American mathematician and economist. All text, either derivative works from Wikipedia Articles or original content shared here, is licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License A full list of the authors of the original content can be found in the following subdomain of wikipedia, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Skidelsky_(economist) (Economists: Post Keynesian...

  With all the protectionist talk coming from US President Donald Trump’s administration, it is surprising that no one has mentioned, much less sought to invoke, an obvious tool for addressing persistent external imbalances: the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement’s “scarce-currency clause.”That clause, contained in Article 7 of the agreement, authorizes countries, “after consultation with the [International Monetary] Fund, temporarily to impose limitations on freedom of exchange...