Since the five largest industrial democracies concluded the Plaza Agreement in 1985, the theory and practice of international economic policy coordination has become the subject of spirited academic and public-policy debate. While some view policy coordination as crucial for the construction of...

Depicting the great debates currently raging over the IMF, World Bank, and WTO as battles in a Global Development War, this book proposes specific reforms in those institutions to reflect an ideology of liberal, intelligent, participatory, multilateral, and sustainable human development.

Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world's leading authorities on economics and development policy and a key architect of Poland's successful economic reforms, applies his far-reaching knowledge to the past and future of the world economy, introducing a framework for understanding our global...

This book delves into the causal factors behind the failure to launch the new round of multilateral trade negotiations in Seattle in December 1999. It will be very useful to advanced students and professional economists

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Ch 1. An Economist for All Seasons -- Contributions -- Philosophical Approach -- Overview -- References -- Ch 2. The Washington Consensus -- Washington Consensus I -- The Expanded "Washington Consensus II" -- Three Critiques -- Concluding Comments --...

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Building the Postwar Order -- 2 Welfare States and Social Rights -- 3 Internationalism versus Regionalism in the Cold War -- 4 Canada and the Cold War: The Shift to Regionalism -- 5 Canada-US Free Trade: From the Regional to the...