Governing the Global Economy

Ethan B. Kapstein is Codirector of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project at Princeton University and Arizona Centennial Professor of International Affairs at Arizona State University. He has also served as a Principal Administrator at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and as a US government economist. A former banker and retired naval officer, Kapstein has published widely on the international political economy and advised multinational corporations and development agencies.

A very readable account of efforts to regulate an increasingly liberalized world capital market since the mid-1970s breakdown of the ‘Bretton Woods’ system of international monetary arrangements.