Provides deep analyses of some of the devastating financial crises of the last quarter-centures by showing how such factors as the origins and destinations of loans, bank behaviour, bad timing, ignorance of history, trade regimes, capital flight, and corruption coalesce under certain circumstances to trigger a financial crash.
The book is one of the first in its genre to examine: the origin and relevance of international money as a concept and phenomenon; the structure of various money markets; the nature and functioning of major international financial ...
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They did not become so through free trade; they protected themselves for decades in order to achieve that end'.8 John Kenneth Galbraith wrote of this nineteenth century protectionism in these terms: For Britain, the industrially most ...
Bringing together experts from both inside and outside of China, this volume argues that China’s rise in the international financial system is a highly complex and political process, and can only be understood by incorporating analysis of ...
Prepared for the G24 research program, a consortium of developing countries focused on financial issues, this volume argues that such reforms must be developmental.
Essays examine the functions of the global financial system, including payments, lending, investing, pooling funds, allocating risk, providing information, and handling incentive issues
This 1994 book is a collection of essays by some of the most authoritative economists and policymakers on the international monetary system.
An examination of the professional economic merits, practical feasibility, and underlying politics of the hotly contested competing initiatives for strengthening the international financial system. Challenging much of the conventional wisdom,...
... and I surveyed a number of crosscountry empirical studies that try to assess whether IMF - supported programs led ... Of the 16 published studies included in our survey , about half were undertaken by IMF staff and the remainder by ...
This outstanding book will prove invaluable to students studying international economics, economic history and the history of economic thought.