The volume of capital flows between industrial and developing countries has grown dramatically in the past decade and has become a major issue in a world that is increasingly "globalized." Here Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger, two leading experts on this topic, have assembled a group of...

"The book examines why able economic managers in Mexico, on the basis of contemporaneous information in their possession, made the decisions they did, and with such disastrous consequences. The major conclusion is that decision-making was heavily influenced by the cultural milieu in Mexico,...