# 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. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wiki.unitas.foundation/unitas-protocol-v1/unitas-protocol/unitas-origins.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.