World finance and economic stability : selected essays of James Tobin / James Tobin.

Foreword / by Janet Yellen, vii -- Acknowledgements, xiv -- Introduction, xvii -- Part I. Financial globalization and world money -- 1. The global economy: who is at the helm?, 3 -- 2. Financial globalization, 13 -- 3. Financial globalization: can national currencies survive?, 20 -- 4. Foreword to Global Capital Flows, 35 -- 5. Prologue to The Tobin Tax: Coping with Finaneial Volatility, 39 -- 6. Remarks at a round table on Tobin Tax, 48 -- 7. Why we need sand in the market's gears, 51 -- 8. They are misusing my name, 55 -- 9. An idea that gained currency but lost clarity, 61 -- Part II. Currency crises and bailouts -- 10. The IMF's misplaced priorities: flawed fund, 67 -- 11. Tighten belt? No, spend cash, 72 -- 12. Keynesian insights for the Japanese economy, 79 -- 13. Currency unions, American v. European, 86 -- 14. Symposium on limiting the moral hazard in international financial rescues, 91 -- Part III. Growth and the fiscal-monetary policy mix -- 15. I960: campaign memo on economic growth and 'Growth Through Taxation', 95 -- 16. The monetary and fiscal policy mix, 117 -- 17. Can we grow faster?, 134 -- 18. Supply constraints on employment and output: NAIRU versus natural rate, 151 -- 19. Monetary policy: recent theory and practice, 165 -- 20. Whatever happened to fiscal policy?, 173 -- 21. Clinton's second term and the American economy, 179 -- 22. Fiscal policy: its macroeconomics in perspective, 182 -- Part IV. Political economy -- 23. Thoughts on indexing the elderly, 191 -- 24. The political threat to Social Security, 197 -- 25. Fisher's introductory text, 202 -- 26. Review of The Commanding Heights, 206 -- 27. On Minsky's agenda for reform, 211 -- 28. False expectations, 215 -- 29. Between a market-based and a caring society: what kind of socially responsible economy do we want?, 221 -- 30. Jan Tinbergen (12 April 1903-9 June 1994), 228 -- Index, 233.