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"Imagine that after decades of running a successful corporation, you get an offer to lead a crucial government agency of 100,000 employees serving 180 million customers. The organization is maligned by the public, beset by profound management and technology problems, and trapped in a political minefield." "This is the daunting scenario Charles O. Rossotti faced in 1997, when he became the first businessman to lead the Internal Revenue Service." "Many...

Presenting a textbook introduction to finance and developing countries, this book investigates the subject's impact on the issues of poverty and globalisation. Both domestic and external finance systems are examined, with the role of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank very much to the fore.

"Exploiting recently declassified documents from both the United States and Europe and employing economic analysis and international relations theory, Francis Gavin offers a reassessment of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and dollar-gold convertability." "Standard accounts argue that this system played a key role in stabilizing great power politics during the postwar period, especially within the Western Alliance, as rules and institutions...

In Surrender, Michael Meeropol takes a close look at what actually happened to the American economy during the years of the "Reagan Revolution," revealing with compelling evidence the policies that were truly responsible for the failure to generate rapid growth and other economic improvements. Meeropol gives a detailed account of the inability of the U.S. economy between 1990 and 1994 to improve productivity or raise incomes for most of the population....

Explores possible futures of the dollar as an international currency as the dollar becomes more volatile than ever against foreign currencies, and China and the Arab Gulf states hold more United States government obligations.

"The recent financial crisis was an accident, a 'perfect storm' fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. And policy makers? They did everything they could, given their limited authority. It was all a terrible, unavoidable accident. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminaries that includes Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke,...

"This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the World Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach." "The book sheds new light on the World Bank's role in increasing global inequalities and considers why it has become the central target for anti-globalization movements worldwide. For...