Can Nations Agree? Issues in International Economic Cooperation

by Cooper, Richard N.; Eichengreen, Barry; Holtham, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780815711780
• ISBN10: 0815711786
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-06-01
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

In the age of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, a new international trade in industrial and human waste, the depletion of the ozone layer, and the greenhouse effect, the importance of international cooperation is supremely evident. In the economic arena, such problems include speculative instability in financial and primary commodities markets, competition in tax regimes, and the greatly enhanced scope for tax evasion. Can Nations Agree? examines the crucial issues surrounding international cooperation-- conditions that foster cooperation toward common goals; ways to handle the friction arising from conflicting goals; and the structures that best promote cooperation.Although nations recognize the value of cooperation in an independent world, a variety of conditions inhibit the process. In recent decades the number of independent nations has risen rapidly, and so has the variety of decisionmakers and national interests to be reconciled. At the same time, the economic power of the United States has declined in relation to other successful capitalist countries.In the chapters on the 1978 Bonn economic summit, German macroeconomic policy, international cooperation on public health issues, and hegemony and stability, the scholars contributing to this volume analyze the history and process of international cooperation to offer fresh insight for future efforts.

Table of Contents

Studies in International Economics	p. ii
The Brookings Institution	p. v
Foreword	p. vii
Problems of International Cooperation	p. 1
Notes	p. 9
The Bonn Summit of 1978: A Case Study in Coordination	p. 12
Notes	p. 126
German Macroeconomic Policy and the 1978 Bonn Economic Summit	p. 141
Appendix: The Natural Rate of Unemployment	p. 174
Appendix: The Natural Rate of Unemployment	p. 175
International Cooperation in Public Health as a Prologue to Macroeconomic Cooperation	p. 178
Notes	p. 250
Hegemonic Stability Theories of the International Monetary System	p. 255
Notes	p. 287
Index	p. 299
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