World Finance and Economic Stability: Selected Essays of James Tobin Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Pt. I	Financial Globalization and World Money
1	The global economy: who is at the helm?	3
2	Financial globalization	13
3	Financial globalization: can national currencies survive?	20
4	Foreword to Global Capital Flows	35
5	Prologue to The Tobin Tax: Coping with Financial Volatility	39
6	Remarks at a round table on Tobin Tax	48
7	Why we need sand in the market's gears	51
8	They are misusing my name	55
9	An idea that gained currency but lost clarity	61
Pt. II	Currency Crises and Bailouts
10	The IMF's misplaced priorities: flawed fund	67
11	Tighten belt? No, spend cash	72
12	Keynesian insights for the Japanese economy	79
13	Currency unions, American v. European	86
14	Symposium on limiting the moral hazard in international financial rescues	91
Pt. III	Growth and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix
15	1960: campaign memo on economic growth and 'Growth Through Taxation'	95
16	The monetary and fiscal policy mix	117
17	Can we grow faster?	134
18	Supply constraints on employment and output: NAIRU versus natural rate	151
19	Monetary policy: recent theory and practice	165
20	Whatever happened to fiscal policy?	173
21	Clinton's second term and the American economy	179
22	Fiscal policy: its macroeconomics in perspective	182
Pt. IV	Political Economy
23	Thoughts on indexing the elderly	191
24	The political threat to Social Security	197
25	Fisher's introductory text	202
26	Review of The Commanding Heights	206
27	On Minsky's agenda for reform	211
28	False expectations	215
29	Between a market-based and a caring society: what kind of socially responsible economy do we want?	221
30	Jan Tinbergen (12 April 1903-9 June 1994)	228
	Index	233