Gillian Tett

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The Story of Money · The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world · 20 May 2026 podcast

And here's the crowning irony. matched

At the time, John Menicanes, a British economist, who was at the college which I oversee today, King's College, Cambridge, and his US counterpart Harry Dexter White, thought this was the crowning achievement of their careers. matched

And yet they would soon be dead, and in fact it would contribute to the undoing of both of their reputations subsequently. matched

So standby is coming up here on the story of money from the Financial Times with me, Gillian Tett. matched

And me, Robin Wheelsworth. matched

Absolutely. matched

In fact, it's a bit of a modern monetary meme, if you like, because it's used as a shorthand for the system of fixed exchange rates that the agreement ushered in for the first twenty five years after the end of World War two. matched

And even today people use that meme to talk about the IMF and World Bank, calling them the Bretton Woods institutions, because they came out of that conference in nineteen forty four. matched

As luck would have it, we have the perfect person to tell us that story who actually came up to Cambridge, Keynes' stamping ground recently, to talk about his book, Ed Conway. matched

Ed, welcome to the show. matched

Now, Ed, you're a longtime business journalist, currently working as the economics editor at Sky News, so many of our listeners will have seen you on television. matched

But you've also got a reputation as an author of some really important books about how the modern global economy works, including the one about Bretton Woods Conference, which gave birth to all this, which is called The Summit. matched

Sounds a bit like a John Grisham novel. matched

That's a good moment to bring in two of the star characters in this story. matched

And every great story, even in economics or especially in economics, needs colourful people. matched

So let's start with the most famous of the two men who were really at the center of it, John Maynard Keynes, who's somebody who hangs over me every single day at Cambridge University because he was at King's College, Cambridge, he dominated the college for many years. matched

His portrait and his bust is everywhere. matched

Um but what kind of man actually was Keynes and how did he end up matched

at the Bretonwood Hotel leading the British delegation. matched

And that's not great politics at all. matched

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