The Financial System Under Stress: An Architecture for the New World Economy

by Marc Uzan

Overview

The collapse of Barings bank and the currency crisis in Mexico are just two instances of stress in an international financial system still largely governed by the institutions established by the Bretton Woods Committee in 1944. Here, the authors put forward an agenda for a new system of international economic institutions to fit the changes in inte

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134780181
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/11/1996
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	4 MB

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Edited by Marc Uzan

Table of Contents

Introduction THE WORLD ECONOMY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: The search for a new paradigm 1944—95 1 THE REALLY NEW BRETTON WOODS 2 THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY ORDER SINCE 1945: An historical perspective 3 INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER 11 AND SDR 4 REGIONALISM VERSUS GLOBALISM? Globalism via regionalism! 5 GLOBAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AFTER THE COLD WAR 6 DOLLAR AND YEN: The problem of financial adjustment between the United States and Japan 7 MONETARY UNION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 8 CREDIBLE ROADS TO EMU 9 EXCHANGE RATES IN SEARCH OF FUNDAMENTAL VARIABLES