With international contributors, this second volume in Contemporary Issues, by Joseph Stiglitz, includes theoretical, empirical, and policy oriented chapters based on careful utilization of theory and data analysis

Stiglitz brings together this edited collection that presents a series of studies on contemporary macroeconomic issues and contains a set of key lessons for macroeconomic theory and policies from the recent global financial crisis

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Martin Guzman, Jose Antonio Ocampo, and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- General issues of sovereign debt restructuring -- Fixing sovereign debt restructuring / Martin Guzman and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Sovereign debt of developing countries : overview of trends and policy...