Fixing Global Finance

by Martin Wolf

Book Overview

The latest book from Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf explains why global imbalances cause financial crises--including the one ravaging the United States right now--and outlines the steps for ending this destructive cycle.

Reviewing global financial crises since 1980, Wolf lays bare the links between the microeconomics of finance and the macroeconomics of the balance of payments, demonstrating how the subprime lending crisis in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801890489
• ISBN13: 9780801890482
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher