This book is based on several talks and papers presented by the author in recent years. It is organized in two parts, the first dealing with an emerging development paradigm, and the second with the imperative for a new international dialogue in topics central to human development such as a...

Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Overview -- The Tobin Tax as an Instrument of Global Monetary Policy -- 1. Taxing International Financial Transactions to Enhance the Operation of the International Monetary System -- 2. How Well Do Markets Work: Might a Tobin Tax Help? -- 3. The Tobin...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction to dynamic and stochastic resource economics : essays on biodiversity, invasive species, joint systems, and regulation -- Natural resource management -- On some aspects of the management of a stochastically developing forest -- On the choice...