1st Edition

The Future of the International Monetary System Change, Coordination of Instability?

    First Published in 1989. This a collection of sixteen essays that takes at look at the international monetary system and discusses if there is a need for change, improved coordination or concern due to instability. Topics explored include international debt, monetary reform, exchange stability, purchasing power, external impacts, the paper-exchange system, LDC debt, gold and commodity and looking to the future.

    Chapter 1 Disturbance in the world economy, Robin Rowley, Omar Hamouda; Chapter 2 Banks, governments and international debt: Where do we go from here?, Thomas J. Berger; Chapter 3 International monetary reform: the future is not what it used to be!, Robert Solomon; Chapter 4 International monetary reform, coordination and indicators, Andrew Crockett; Chapter 5 The search for exchange stability: before and after Bretton Woods, Edward M. Bernstein; Chapter 6 The international monetary system and the paper-exchange standard, Robert Triffin; Chapter 7 Purchasing power parity as a monetary standard, Ronald I. McKinnon, Kenichi Ohno; Chapter 8 The international monetary system: An analysis of alternative regimes, Marcus H. Miller, John Williamson; Chapter 9 The future of the international monetary system, Sidney Dell; Chapter 10 External impacts of the United States' financial policies, Peter M. Oppenheimer; Chapter 11 Some reflections on the LDC debt crisis, Kari Levitt; Chapter 12, Fred Z. Jaspersen; Chapter 13 A return visit to the international debt problem of the LDCs, Lorie Tarshis; Chapter 14 LDC debt: towards a genuinely cooperative solution, Benjamin J. Cohen; Chapter 15 A neglected monetary standard alternative: gold/commodity bimetallism, Albert Gailord Hart; Chapter 16 The international monetary system: a look ahead, Bernard M. Wolf;

    Biography

    Omar F. Hamouda Professor of Economics, Glendon College, York University. Robin Rowley Professor of Economics, McGill University. Bernard M. Wolf Professor of Economics, York University.