The aim of this article is to analyse the economic ideas and the diplomatic action of the Brazilian delegates in the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, which took place in Bretton Woods, in July, 1944. The article highlights the experience of Octavio Gouvea de Bulhões, Eugenio Gudin and the Brazilian Minister of Finance at that time, Souza Costa. The study is centered on the new economic order conception displayed by the Brazilian delegates, as well as on their pragmatic alignment with the forces in struggle, organized according to the White Plan (North-american) and the Keynes Plan (British). The article concludes that, in spite of being unable to halt the integral approval of the White Plan, Brazilian delegates were able to assure seats in the new economic institutional mechanisms created in the Bretton Woods Conference.
Bretton Woods; Eugenio Gudin; Octavio Bulhões; Souza Costa; International economy