Orderly Change: International Monetary Relations since Bretton Woods

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This project began as musings on periodicity in the Bretton Woods system; but challenged by friends and colleagues to consider the wider implications of this analysis, the project’s trajectory soon changed. Following this new course was richly rewarding. As is often the case with circuitous journeys, along the way we acquired several debts. For my own part, the chief of these is to my collaborators. I entered the academy imagining that I would be engaged with fellow scholars whose breadth of knowledge was matched only by their love of further learning. It is not always the case that such aspirations are realized. Others helped in the project’s development as well. Early drafts of a first group of papers were presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2004; a second group of papers was presented at the annual meetings of the International Studies Association (ISA) in spring 2005. In both cases stimulating discussion followed; indeed, it was at the ISA meetings in Honolulu that Phil Cerny urged a more comprehensive analysis than I, in my parochialism , had originally imagined. We have tried to take his counsel to heart. The contributors to the project then took part in a workshop in Claremont in February 2006 at which each chapter was submitted to careful review. The external readers included Graham Bird, Benjamin Cohen, Barry Eichengreen, Clas Wihlborg, and Thomas Willett. We benefited richly from our discussions with these distinguished scholars, who were generous with their time and insightful with their comments. Later, Cornell University Press arranged for two anonymous reviewers who provided unusually penetrating analysis and thoughtful advice. Again, we are the richer for their efforts. Scripps College and the European Union Center of California jointly funded the Claremont workshop, for which Lukas Loncko made the arrangements. Sam Schreyer faithfully transcribed my scribbles for over a year, sometimes at odd hours of the day. I am profoundly grateful both to these institutions and to these individuals. On a more personal note, the final editing of this project took place while my wife, Stephanie, gave birth to a child, renovated a home, and packed our belongings so that we could move into it. In between these tasks, she gently pointed out that et al. is an abbreviation and therefore requires a period, that capitol refers to a building whereas capital refers to a city, and that the issues addressed in this book are not what people normally refer to as “social problems.” I have appreciated all this, more than she knows. D.M.A. Claremont, California xii Acknowledgments Orderly Change This page intentionally left blank. ...