Author: Stephany Griffith-Jones File Type: pdf The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, has spread to developing countries and has turned into a global financial meltdown. Governments and Central Banks--though taking many and costly measures--seem powerless to stop the crisis. In light of this major global crisis that is hurting economies across the globe, this highly topical book focuses on the transparency and regulatory measures that become desirable after the current crisis the implications of both the crisis and regulatory discussions for developing and developed economies and reforms in the global financial architecture that might make the global financial system more stable and more equitable. Given the depth of the current financial crisis, the world economy is in unchartered territory. As a consequence, this book aims to systematically understand current major problems, both in the financial system, its governance, and in its links to global economic imbalances. It will try to explain how both market actors and regulators behavior, as well as how the prevailing ideology of extreme financial liberalization without sufficient regulation contributed to the financial crisis. The book presents radical, but specific and politically feasible, proposals to try to ensure a more stable, equitable and growing world economy.Contributions are written by leading authorities in their field, with a mixture of very senior national--as well as international--policy makers, practitioners from the private sector, and leading academics contributors come from both developed and developing countries.ReviewImpressive and important... It is hard to imagine a more qualified team of editors in this field. The sheer amount of expertise packed into this volume makes it a very valuable resource indeed. It may not be an exaggeration to describe this book as indispensable in the study of just exactly what happened in late 2008 and what needs to be done to prevent such a profound crisis from striking again.... Readers of Time for a Visible Hand can expect to be well-informed and well-equipped after being exposed to such a wide range of thinkers and policy-makers. This publication may well take on a definitive textbook status in years to come.--Journal of General ManagementAbout the AuthorStephany Griffith-Jones is an economist whose areas of expertise include global capital flows to emerging markets and international financial reform. Prior to joining IPD, Professor Griffith-Jones was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex and served as Senior Official at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Economic Commission of Latin America (ECLAC), and as Head of International Finance at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She has acted as senior consultant to governments in Eastern Europe and Latin America and to many international agencies, including the World Bank and United Nations. She began her career at the Central Bank of Chile. She has published many articles and books including International Finance and Development with Jose Antonio Ocampo and Jan Kregel. She received the Association of Latin American Financial Institutions prize for best essay on Latin Americas international finance.Jose Antonio Ocampo is Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Prioir to this, Professor Ocampo served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, and head of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), as Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and has held a number of high-level posts in the Government of Colombia, including Minister of Finance and Public Credit and Director of the National Planning Department. He has also served as Executive Director of FEDESARROLLO, the main think tank on economic issues in Colombia, Director of the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Economico of Universidad de los Andes, Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, and Professor of Economic History at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has also been Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Oxford and Yale Universities. Joseph E. Stiglitz holds joint professorships at Columbia Universitys Economics Department and its Business School. He is co-chair of IPDs macroeconomics, CML, and Intellectual Property Task Forces. From 1997 to 2000 he was the World Banks Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist. From 1995- 97 he served as Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers and as a member of President Clintons cabinet. From 1993 to 1995 he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He was previously a professor of economics at Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and All Souls College. Dr Stiglitz is a leading scholar of the economics of the public sector and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 in addition to the American Economic Associations biennial John Bates Clark Award in 1979. His work has been recognized through his election as a fellow to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the British Academy.

Author: Michel Chossudovsky File Type: pdf In The Globalization of Poverty, Michel Chossudovsky explains in detail how leading international financial institutions, notably the IMF and the World Bank, have forced Third World and, since 1989, Eastern European countries to make structural economic changes. This book is a skillful combination of lucid explanation and an impeccably argued critique of the fundamental directions in which our world is moving, financially and economically. Chossudovsky shows the consequences of this new, international financial order that -- feeds on human poverty -- exists through destruction of the environment -- creates social apartheid -- encourages racism and ethnic strife and -- undermines the rights of women. In his thorough investigation into the cogs of our marketplace, Chossudovsky reveals problems inherent in a global, cheap-labor economy. With evidence from locations such as sub-Saharan Africa, Japan, and North America, this book exposes how the IMF contributes to economic genocides. From financial glass ceilings to the recycling of private debts into public ones, The Globalization of Poverty shows how IMF reforms encourage global monopolies and financial instability. In short, Chossudovsky sounds a warning about the power wielded by the World Bank, IMF, and other international financial institutions because of their greatest effect a globalization of poverty.

Author: Rose McDermott File Type: pdf Why do men act violently toward women? What are the consequences of normal violence, not only for women and children but also for the men who instigate it, and for the societies that sanction it? The Evils of Polygyny examines one powerful structural factor that instigates, enforces, and replicates patterns of male dominance the practice of polygyny. From more than a decades worth of study, Rose McDermott has produced a book that uncovers the violent impact of polygyny on women, children, and the nation-state and adds fundamentally to the burgeoning focus on gender concerns in political psychology and international relations. Integrating these fields, as well as domestic policy and human rights, the author urges us to address the question of violence toward women and children. If we do not, a system that tells young women they must marry whom their elders dictate and devote their entire lives to serving others will continue to plague the contemporary world, and restrict development. The timely nature of McDermotts book reflects the mission of the Easton Lectures at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality at the University of California, Irvine, which charges its lecturers to produce work that is creative, controversial, and cutting-edge, and offers substantial real-world impact. The Evils of Polygyny, edited by Kristen Renwick Monroe, includes commentary from Valerie Hudson, Robert Jervis, and B. J. Wray. The book does just that, providing a coherent analysis of sexual violence and a provocative and chilling analysis of one of the major problems of the contemporary world. **

Author: David Sloan Wilson File Type: epub It is widely understood that Charles Darwins theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution wont be truly complete until it is applied more broadlyto everything associated with the words human, culture, and policy. In a series of engaging and insightful examplesfrom the breeding of hens to the timing of cataract surgeries to the organization of an automobile plantWilson shows how an evolutionary worldview provides a practical tool kit for understanding not only genetic evolution but also the fast-paced changes that are having an impact on our world and ourselves. What emerges is an incredibly empowering argument If we can become wise managers of evolutionary processes, we can solve the problems of our age at all scalesfrom the efficacy of our groups to our well-being as individuals to our stewardship of the planet Earth. **