E. A. Brett
International Money and Capitalist Crisis: The Anatomy of Global Disintegration.
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. First edition. 0865315752 viii/271 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear, with pine panel exhibiting sunning. 
"Why has the international monetrary system been in a state of acute crisis for more than a decade? Why did the stability, cooperation and unity of the Bretton Woods system break down thus casting doubt upon the validity of the whole corpus of liberal economic theory upon which it had been based? Why has the intellectual industry set up to resolve these problems failed to produce either a convincing diagnosis or any viable plan of action?
This book is an attempt to answer some of these questions. It begins by explaining the system in its own terms, by looking at the role of money in the capitalist world economy, at the nature of the structures set up to organise its use at Bretton Woods, and at the bodies of theory through which they have been organised and understood. It then demonstrates the inadequacy of these arguments by questioning their fundamental assumptions and shows instead that free trade and an uncontrolled process of global capital accumulation must lead directly to the growth of uneven development and the breakdown of stable and reciprocal monetary relationships. It concludes by reviewing the major developments in the operation of the international economy since the war, and shows that these can be more convincingly understood through the categories developed her than through those derived from the liberal tradition."