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Reason
February 2002
Nick Gillespie |
Dismal Humanists In How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics, David M. Levy revisits the debate between the pro-slavery Victorians and classical liberal abolitionists such as John Stuart Mill...   |
FDIC FYI
January 31, 2002 |
Large and Small Companies Exhibit Diverging Bankruptcy Trends Recent bankruptcy trends for publicly traded companies are markedly worse than for smaller companies, according to an FDIC report issued today... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Future of the Euro-Dollar Relationship Depends a Lot on the U.S. Depending on how it is accepted, the euro could ultimately become an alternative to the dollar as a global reserve currency and provide a place of refuge if mounting U.S. debt finally leads to a weaker dollar, according to international finance experts... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Argentina: Can It Go From Bad to Worse? It's hard to imagine how the Argentine economy could get much worse. Argentina's current plight is all the more troubling because only a few years ago the country was hailed as a poster-child for free-market economic reform in developing nations... |
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Global Securities Markets Present Tough Challenges for Investors and Regulators The bursting of the Internet bubble, the collapse of Enron and the emerging demutualization of securities exchanges, especially in Europe, have brought the role of securities market regulators into sharper focus than before... |
Salon.com
January 11, 2002
Damien Cave |
The dangers of overstimulation The right time to jump-start the economy may already have passed... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Ahmed, Lane & Schulze-Ghattas |
Refocusing IMF Conditionality Shortly after he assumed office as Managing Director of the IMF in May 2000, Horst Kohler launched a reform of the conditionality associated with its lending. What lies behind this change in approach, and what prospects does it have for strengthening implementation of reforms in the IMF's member countries? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Bannister & Thugge |
International Trade and Poverty Alleviation How does trade liberalization affect the poor, and how can they be protected against its negative short-term effects? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Davis, Ossowski, Daniel & Barnett |
Oil Funds: Problems Posing as Solutions? Heavy dependence on oil revenues---which are volatile and unpredictable, and will, sooner or later, dry up---greatly complicates a country's fiscal policy. To tackle these problems, many oil-producing countries are setting up oil funds. But are these really a solution, or just a problem posing as one? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001 |
New Book Features IMF's Role in Combating the Global Debt Crisis James M. Boughton's book Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund, 1979-1989. |
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