The Financial System Under Stress An Architecture for the New World Economy [Hardcover]

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 international relations. This agenda includes:
* an analysis of the role of the Bretton Woods institutions and their relations with the newly created World Trade Organizations
* a discussion of the search for world economic governance
* an analysis of the crisis within EMS and the prospects for European Monetary Integration
* an examination of the integration of private markets in the new economic architecture.
Introduction.The World Economy at the Turn of the Century: The Search for the New Paradgim 1994-95 Marc Uzan
1.The Really New Bretton WoodsRoberto Mangabeira Unger
2.The International Monetary Fund and the International Monetary Order Since 1945: An Historical Perspective Harold James
3.International Chapter 11 and SDR Zhiyuan Cui
4.Regionalism versus Globalism?: Globalism via Regionalism Reimut Jochinsen
5.Global Economic Integration After the Cold War David D. Hale
6.Dollar and Yen: The Problem of Financial Adjustment between the United States and Japan Ronald I. McKinnon
7.Monetary Union in Southern Africa Chris Stals
8.Credible Roads to EMU Jurgen von Hagen
9.Exchange Rates in Search of Fundamental Variables Paul De Grauwe
Appendix. Index.