TY - BOOK AU - Tobín, James TI - World finance and economic stability: selected essays of James Tobin SN - 1840649267 AV - HG 230 .3 .T63 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Cheltenham, UK PB - Edward Elgar KW - Política económica KW - Política fiscal KW - Finanzas internacionales KW - Estados Unidos N1 - 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 ER -