Guido Montani
This essay investigates how the International Clearing Union proposed by Keynes at Bretton Woods was incorporate by Robert Triffin into the three crucial projects during his intense career as an international economist. Today, the period since the end of the Cold War is degenerating into a dangerous international anarchy between great and small powers. A reform of the IMF is now necessary to respond not only to the economic and monetary disorder, but also to the possible ecological collapse of the biosphere. Therefore, the historical-economic approach developed by Robert Triffin is indispensable. A new Bretton Woods should be the convened by all the countries in the United Nations willing to give a future of peace and sustainable development to the human society.
