Die 8. Auflage dieses Klassikers der Außenwirtschaftslehre vom Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger 2008 erscheint in einer Zeit, in der die Entwicklung der Weltwirtschaft die nationale Politik und die politischen Debatten stärker beeinflusst als je zuvor. Die Globalisierung hat alle Bereiche erfasst....

A key precursor of twentieth-century financial crises in emerging and advanced economies alike was the rapid buildup of leverage. Those emerging economies that avoided leverage booms during the 2000s also were most likely to avoid the worst effects of the twenty-first century's first global...

This paper makes a case that the global imbalances of the 2000s and the recent global financial crisis are intimately connected. Both have their origins in economic policies followed in a number of countries in the 2000s and in distortions that influenced the transmission of these policies...