Promoting Unorthodox Money Doctoring: Arthur Bloomfield and the West Indian Federation
研究了二战后美国货币专家亚瑟·布卢姆菲尔德如何根据西印度群岛的政治经济条件，提出灵活而非僵化的中央银行政策建议，反映了美国对外货币政策的新思路。
Abstract Money doctors played a crucial role in establishing and advising central banks in underdeveloped countries in the twentieth century. However, the Bretton Woods order transformed the doctors’ prescriptions after the Second World War. Arthur Bloomfield was a part of this “new generation” who attempted to equip central banks with wide-ranging policy tools in contrast to the rigid instruments proposed by the previous generation of experts. Bloomfield's assignment to the British West Indies in 1960–61 is an example of the change in vision of US foreign monetary policy. A significant characteristic of the new tradition was to let the environment of the country or region determine the exact approach of central banking. Therefore, the political and economic conditions of the West Indies, and the efforts to achieve regional integration and gain independence, were a principal consideration for Bloomfield and his advice for the region.