This important new book brings together a significant body of new essays on some of the central economic problems facing governments, firms and individuals in the 1990s.

There are four factors involved in the current financial crisis in Asia that have caused surprise. Since the Latin American debt crisis was thought to have been aggravated by the dominance of syndicated private bank lending, borrowers were encouraged to increase private direct investment flows....

Das vorliegende Buch entstand in Zusammenarbeit namhafter europäischer und amerikanischer Wissenschaftler, die für einen neuen konstruktiven und humaneren Transformation eintreten. Seit Beginn des Reformprozesses sind in den ehemals planwirtschaftlichen Staaten Produktion, Beschäftigtenzahlen...

The first of a series of volumes which will collect historical documents by economists who have been in the forefront of economic theory and policy formulation in the postwar period. It reflects the way economists view their own and other's contributions and shows world influences on their work