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Article: Krugman at Bretton Woods.(Opinion/Editorial)
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- September 26, 2000
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WE have just attended a 2 day World Business Forum at historic Bretton Woods in New Hampshire with Prof. Paul Krugman of MIT and Princeton as the principal attraction.
Sponsored by the Center for Asia and the Emerging Economics by Dartmount University, it was held at the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort in the legendary White Mountains, considered the most spectacular mountains and valleys in New England.
This is exactly the same place where the 1994 Bretton Woods international monetary conference was held, where 44 countries organized the World Bank and the IMF, set the gold standard at $35 an ounce, and chose the US dollar as the backbone of ...