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

by Uzan; Marc

• ISBN13: 9780415135160
• ISBN10: 0415135168
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134780181
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-15
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

The international system is largely governed by institutions established by the Bretton Woods Committee in 1945.The Financial System Under Stressputs forth an agenda for a new system of international economic institutions to fit the changes in international relations. Marc Uzan, Executive Director of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, includes an analysis of the role of the Bretton Woods institutions and their relations with the newly created World Trade Organization as well as a discussion of the search for world economic governance. LContributers: Marc Uzan, Harold James, Jurgen(place an umlot over the u) von Hagen, Reimut Jochimsen, Ronald I. McKinnon, David D. Hale, Paul De Grauwe, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Zhiyuan Cui, Chris Stals, Jorge Braga de Macedo and Herve Carre )place an accent grave over the final e in both names)

Table of Contents

The Financial System Under Stress	p. i
The Financial System Under Stress: An Architecture for the New World Economy	p. iii
Figures	p. ix
Tables	p. x
Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction The Search for a New Paradigm 1944-95	p. 1
The Really New Bretton Woods	p. 11
An Historical Perspective	p. 26
Notes	p. 56
International Chapter 11 and Sdr	p. 57
Globalism Via Regionalism!	p. 64
Notes	p. 77
How Will the Economic Order Created at Bretton Woods Adjust to Three Billion New Members?	p. 81
The Problem of Financial Adjustment Between the United States and Japan	p. 132
Notes	p. 163
References	p. 164
Monetary Union in Southern Africa	p. 165
Credible Roads to Emu	p. 178
References	p. 195
Exchange Rates in Search of Fundamental Variables	p. 196
References	p. 213
Appendix	p. 214
Index	p. 219
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