The Wind of the Hundred Days
Subtitle: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: March 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780262523271
Subjects: Central government policies; Economic theory & philosophy; Globalization; International economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; USA; Economics - General; General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; International - Taxation; International Relations - General; Capital movements; Economic aspects; Free trade
First sentence: In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, the mainstream view, indeed the prevalent myth, that dominates policy circles is that despite the evidence of a crisis-prone world of freer capital mobility as inescapably brought to our attention by the 1994 Mexican peso debacle and the current Asian tragedy, a world characterized by full capital mobility continues to be not just inevitable but also immensely desirable.