The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is a much cited but little studied institution, and its role in international governance is poorly understood. Nevertheless, the OECD plays an important role in the emerging structure of global governance. Focusing upon the OECD's core...

A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly...

This volume brings together nine papers from a conference on international macroeconomics sponsored by the NBER in 1985. International economists as well as graduate students in the fields of global monetary economics, finance, and macroeconomics will find this an outstanding contribution to...

"A readable, balanced, and provocative view of the prospects for fruitful international economic cooperation. The papers are realistic: each discusses the difficulties involved in reaching cooperative solutions or procedures as well as the benefits of doing so. The discussion among the...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Gold-Standard Visions: International Currency Reformers, 1898–1905 -- 2. The Roosevelt Corollary and the Dominican Model of 1905 -- 3. The Changing Forms of Controlled Loans under Taft and Wilson -- 4. Private Money, Public Policy,...

The epidemic caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has affected international trade activities between Asian developing and emerging economies, especially the ASEAN region. This paper aims to examine and measure the impact of COVID-19 and government responses on trade flow using the...