Dornbusch, Rudiger.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- I. Big picture. 1. Century of unrivaled prosperity. 2. 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. Effectiveness of exchange-rate changes. 14. No way to rescue the greenback–and no need to.
- 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.
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