Taming Global Financial Flows: Challenges and Alternatives in the Era of Financial Globalisation: A Citizen's Guide: Challenges and Alternatives in the Era of Globalization

Singh, Kavaljit:

ISBN 10: 1856497844 / ISBN 13: 9781856497848

Published by Zed Books Ltd 01.02.2001., 2001

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240 Seiten Gebraucht, gut. T 19443 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 392 13,8 x 1,8 x 21,8 cm, Paperback.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taming Global Financial Flows: Challenges and Alternatives in the Era of Financial Globalisation: A Citizen's Guide: Challenges and Alternatives in the Era of Globalization
• Publisher: Zed Books Ltd 01.02.2001.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856497844
• ISBN 13: 9781856497848
• Binding: Soft cover
• Weight: 392 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sachbücher

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Synopsis

The global financial system, this book argues, is in serious trouble. Public figures as diverse as George Soros and the British Chancellor of the Exchequer have been calling for reform. Financial liberalization has created an absence of effective regulation over the almost unimaginable sums involved in currency speculations, new financial products, offshore financial centres, secretive hedge funds and shifts of 'hot money' to emerging markets. The result is a degree of volatility in financial markets which threatens the orderly running of national economies. The issues of financial globalization and the need to regulate global capital flows have, as a result, moved centre stage.

This book explains and analyses the constantly changing and complex world of global financial flows, and calls for radical reforms in a system that is now more susceptible to the whims of market sentiment than the economic policies of governments. The author recommends certain guiding principles in order to create a more stable international financial architecture and proposes a series of concrete measures.

This most timely and useful follow-up to his very successful previous book, The Globalization of Finance: A Citizen's Guide, contributes greatly to public understanding of what is involved and to the possibilities of effective action by people's movements campaigning for a more just and sound financial system. Written in a non-technical manner, this book makes the ongoing debates accessible to the non-specialist reader. It will be particularly useful for students of finance, banking and development, as well as for all those interested in issues relating to global financial regulation.

About the Author

Kavaljit Singh is Director of Public Interest Research Centre, Delhi, a policy research institute working on finance, investment and developmental issues. He is the author of highly acclaimed and widely published book, The Globalization of Finance: A Citizen's Guide (DAGA, IPSR Books, Madhyam Books and Zed Books, 1998). His latest book is Taming Global Financial Flows: Challenges and Alternatives in an Era of Financial Globalization (Hong Kong University Press, DAGA, IBON Books, Madhyam Books, University Press, White Lotus and Zed Books, 2000). He is also the founder of Madhyam Books, an independent publishing house, publishing books on contemporary issues.