Research Catalog

Title

Keys to prosperity : free markets, sound money, and a bit of luck / Rudi Dornbusch.

Author

Dornbusch, Rudiger.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Description

x, 357 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book collects Dornbusch's recent policy commentaries from such publications as Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times, as well as longer essays from recent and forthcoming books. The pieces focus on issues of domestic and international economic policy, including inflation and debt, exchange rates, trade policy, emerging markets, and the intersection of politics and economics."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Economic policy
• Economic history > 1990-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. The Big Picture. 1. A Century of Unrivaled Prosperity. 2. The Come and Go of the State -- II. Macroeconomic Ingredients for Growth and Prosperity. 3. Long-Run Growth in Emerging Countries. 4. Containing High Inflation. 5. Free Markets Work Best - But They Need a Little Tweaking. 6. And You Thought Social Security Was in Trouble ... 7. Growth Forever. 8. Germany's Economic Future -- III. Global Financial Markets: Ideas Whose Time Has Come. 9. Capital Controls: An Idea Whose Time Is Gone. 10. Why Bailouts Are Bad Medicine. 11. Check the Laws Before You Invest Abroad. 12. How the Fed Can Tame the Savage Currency Markets. 13. The Effectiveness of Exchange-Rate Changes. 14. No Way to Rescue the Greenback - And No Need To. 15. Lessons from the Mexican Crisis. 16. After Asia: New Directions for the International Financial System. 17. The Target Zone Controversy. 18. New Challenges for World Financial Markets -- IV. No Apologies for Free Trade.
• 19. Is Free Trade at a Crossroads? 20. 2005: A Trade Odyssey. 21. U.S.-Mexico Free Trade: Goods Jobs at Good Wages. 22. U.S.-Japan Relations Fifty Years after Pearl Harbor. 23. Trade with China: Add Bite to America's Bark -- V. European Union: Fantasies, Problems, and Impact. 24. Euro Realities, Fantasies, and Problems. 25. EMU: Will It Happen, Will It Not, and What Difference Does It Make? 26. If the Franc Falls, So Will Europe's Dream of a Common Currency. 27. Why the Mighty Mark Is a Sitting Duck. 28. Europe's Money: Implications for the Dollar. 29. Fifty Years Deutsche Mark. 30. Scenarios for Europe -- VI. A Latin Disease? Or Triangle? 31. The Latin Triangle. 32. Mexico - The Folly, the Crash, and Beyond. 33. Another Peso Disaster May Be Waiting in the Wings. 34. Brazil Has Run Out of Excuses. 35. Argentina's Monetary Policy Lesson for Mexico. 36. How Not to Safeguard South Africa's Democracy. 37. Mexico Should Ditch the Peso for the Dollar.
• 38. Brazil's Policy Options for the Second Term. 39. Brazil Beyond Tropical Illusion -- VII. The East Asian Miracle, Not Quite. 40. Paper Tigers, the IMF, and the World Capital Market. 41. Why Is Japan Shooting Itself in the Foot? 42. What's the Weakest Link in the World Economy? Japan. 43. Mexico Learned Its Lesson, Now, Will East Asia? 44. A Bailout Won't Do the Trick in Korea. 45. An Achilles' Heel That Could Cripple China. 46. Next, China? -- VIII. Good People and Bad Ideas. 47. A Requiem for Chancellor Kohl. 48. Oskar Is Trouble. 49. The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Mixed Praise for Soros.

ISBN

0262041812 (hbk.)

LCCN

00035156

OCLC

• 43648744
• ocm43648744
• SCSB-4084578

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries