Dollar Adjustment: How Far? Against What? (Special Report)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0881323780 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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John Williamson has been Senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics since 1981. . He was assistant secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977-81); assistant for international economic affairs to the National Security Council (1969-71); and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (1972-76), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1981), and the Council on Foreign Relations (1967-68). He is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on a wide range of international economic issues, including Dollar Overvaluation and the World Economy (2003), No More Bashing: Building a New Japan-United States Economic Relationship (2001), Global Economic Leadership and the Group of Seven (1996), The Dilemmas of the Dollar (2d ed, 1996), and America in the World Economy: A Strategy for the 1990s (1988). He was project director for the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development (the Zedillo Report) in 2001; on lea
He was project director for the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development (the Zedillo Report) in 2001; on leave as Chief Economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996-99; Economics professor at Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1978-81), University of Warwick (1970-77), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1
A_"Tell us something we dont already know Fred" according to A_2007_reader. Gotta love economists. This book is like one of those rush to market books after a major news event--that's stale 6 months later.The only saving grace is that the authors are respectable economists (oxymoron?) who have published monographs about currencies.Otherwise, just surf the web and see how Asia likes currency intervention and others float. Which raises the question: why . 007_reader said Tell us something we dont already know Fred. Gotta love economists. This book is like one of those rush to market books after a major news event--that's stale 6 months later.The only saving grace is that the authors are respectable economists (oxymoron?) who have published monographs about currencies.Otherwise, just surf the web and see how Asia likes currency intervention and others float. Which raises the question: why
The dollar rose by about 35 percent in real terms from 1995 through the end of 2001, supporting the booming US economy of the late 1990s but pushing the current account deficit to a record high. Dollar Adjustment: How Far? Against What? looks at this problem and its impact on the United States and other countries. The book examines new ideas on using intervention to achieve desired currency values and what the impact of a major dollar realignment would be on economies around the world. The book contains perspectives from around the world