Böcker av R. Germain

This IPE Classic challenges the claim that globalization is a well-documented phenomena whose effects are easily accounted for. With a new Preface and Foreword, it continues to explore the categories we use to think about globalization, and the effects which globalizing tendencies have on key institutional features of the contemporary world.

The financial crisis prompted many to ask how financial systems from America and Iceland to Russia and Hungary could have been so misgoverned that their near collapse plunged the entire world into recession. Randall Germain assesses what needs to be done, and by whom, to avoid a repetition of what he calls the 'great freeze'.