The essay is an extended version of the Frank D. Graham Lecture presented at Princeton University in May 1985. It discusses the interaction of inflation and exchange rate policy in a variety of contexts. Four different settings are used to highlight that role: the experiments with exchange rate...

The 1980s were a lost decade for Latin America, will the 1990s also be lost? For some countries stabilization has not even started. In other countries the stabilization accomplishments remain tentative and vulnerable. And even those countries that have established firmly a new path for their...

The macroeconomics of populism / Rudiger Dornbusch, Sebastian Edwards -- The political economy of Latin American populism / Robert R. Kaufman, Barbara Stallings -- Populism, profligacy, and redistribution / Eliana Cardoso, Ann Helwege -- Description of a populist experience: Argentina, 1973-1976...