Book review: Harry White and the American creed: how a federal bureaucrat created the modern global economy (and failed to get the credit) by James M. Boughton

In Harry White and the American Creed: How a Federal Bureaucrat Created the Modern Global Economy (and Failed to Get the Credit), James M. Boughton gives a new account of how US Treasury economist Harry Dexter White came to write the rules for the international economic architecture at Bretton Woods in 1944. This perfectly timed book gives significant insights on the origins of the current economic system and what it might take to build it back better, writes Kevin Gallagher. Harry White and the American Creed: How a Federal Bureaucrat Created the Modern Global Economy (and Failed to Get the Credit). James M. Boughton. Yale University Press. 2021.