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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815480503321

Titolo

Global instability : the political economy of world economic governance / / edited by Jonathan Michie and John Grieve Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-134-63332-7

1-134-63333-5

0-429-22896-1

0-203-28001-6

1-280-32596-8

0-203-16544-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

Contemporary political economy series

Altri autori (Persone)

MichieJonathan

Grieve SmithJohn

Disciplina

332/.042

Soggetti

International finance

Business cycles

Economic history - 1990-

Investments, Foreign

Competition, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 'Asian capitalism' and the financial crisis; Rejecting exceptionalism: reinterpreting the Asian financial crises; Stabilizing capital flows to developing countries; International finance and global deflation: there is an alternative; Creating international credit rules and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment: what are the alternatives?; World trade liberalisation: national autonomy and global regulation; What role for the Tobin tax in world economic governance?

Transnational rules for transnational corporations: what next? Will the real IMF please stand up: what does the Fund do and what should it do?; A world central bank?; A new Bretton Woods: reforming the global



financial system; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Global Instability, internationally renowned contributors examine the key problems besetting the world economy and outline possible solutions