Reforming Global Finance: 2012 Highlights
The Globalist presents highlights from its Reforming Global Finance series.
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Takeaways
The Globalist’s Reforming Global Finance series presents essays and analyses by experts in the fields of economics, financial markets and financial governance, pointing the way forward to a global financial system that is more transparent, accountable and effective. Here, we present several highlights from this important series.
| 1. | America’s 1% Vs. the Globe’s 1.3 Billion Branko Milanovic | October 29, 2012 The $600 billion of total income of the world’s poorest 1.3 billion people is equal to the income of what percentage of the richest Americans? |
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| 2. | The Economic Fallout of the U.S. Financial Crisis Dennis M. Kelleher | September 10, 2012 Will the costs of the financial crisis limit the government’s ability to deal with future crises? |
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| 3. | The Silent Revolution Inside the IMF Stephan Richter | October 30, 2012 The global balance of economic power is changing — and the IMF is changing right along with it. |
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| 4. | From the Washington Consensus to a Singapore Consensus? Ravi Menon | June 14, 2012 Does the world need more markets, more government, or does it just need markets and government to be more effective? |
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| 4. | Planning for the Future of Democracy: The Four L’s Arun Maira | April 24, 2012 In the battle between governments and markets, can global problems be solved by localization, lateralization, learning and listening? |
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| 5. | The LIBOR Mess Robert J. Shapiro | July 13, 2012 Could the LIBOR scandal become the biggest financial fraud in history? |
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| 6. | The Danger of More Financial Concentration Henry Kaufman | August 15, 2012 Has increasing financial concentration improved the economic function of finance — the effective allocation of credit? |
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| 7. | Larry Summers and the Imperialism of Economics H. Woody Brock | August 24, 2012 Do economists have the right analytical tools to solve our most pressing problems? |
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| 8. | Should We Expect Multinationals to Be Loyal? Robert D. Atkinson | September 19, 2012 Why would a European CEO be “shunned” if he moved much of his production to China? |
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| 9. | Time for Truth on Poverty, Power and Climate Change Peter Goldmark and David De Ferranti | December 4, 2012 Are international financial institutions helping or hindering the switch to clean energy technologies? |
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| 10. | Sovereign Debt Difficulties: Had Enough Yet? Barry Herman | December 14, 2012 Can the fragmentary and chaotic process of resolving sovereign debt crises be made fairer and more effective? |
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