Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- National economies compared -- Participants and incentives -- Central banks, interest rates and money -- Domestic policies and global repercussions -- Global trade and trends -- International payments and exchange -- Investor decisions, moving economies --...

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Overview -- Theory and econometrics -- Tools -- Linear stochastic difference equations -- Efficient computations -- Components of economies -- Economic environments -- Optimal resource allocations -- A commodity space -- Competitive economies -- Representations and...