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# Unitas Origins

“Unitas” was the codename for Harry White’s proposal at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, which gave birth to today’s International Monetary Fund (IMF). White was the economist representing the US. Parts of our Unitas Protocol’s design resemble White’s “Unitas,” since our goal is to create a DeFi “translator” that can unconditionally convert an emerging market stablecoin back to a USD stablecoin.

### Harry White's "Unitas" at Bretton Woods

* Sema Ylmaz GenÁ, bSeda Aydin, "[Hegemony War In Bretton Woods: John Magnard Keynes And Harry Dexter White](https://resources.unitas.foundation/unitas-hegemony-war-bretton-woods)," Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods (ISSN: 2251-6204), vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 17-22, 2018.
* James M. Boughton, "[Why White, not Keynes? Inventing the Post-War International Monetary System](https://resources.unitas.foundation/why-white-not-keynes)," The Open Economy Macromodel: Past, Present and Future, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.