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Zusatztext ... excellent ... In a world shaped by Gradgrindian economic rationalism research that seeks to redress the devastating social and distributional inequities determined by those policies is a refreshing stimulus for political and economic policy change. This is an invaluable text for the theorist! policy maker and teacher seeking to understand the mechanisms of international institutional intervention. Informationen zum Autor Deepak Nayyar is currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi. During his career he has taught economics at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His academic life has been interspersed with short periods in government, most notably as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Professor Nayyar is amember of many commissions, committees and boards, both national and international. Klappentext It is now more than fifty years since the United Nations system and the Bretton Woods institutions were created. The world has changed since then, and so have its governance needs in terms of institutions and rules. It is time to think about the contours of institutions and governance that would meet the needs of the world economy, and also polity, at least for the first quarter of the twenty-first century. This book is the first to examine the subject in depth. Zusammenfassung The world has changed since the United Nations system and the Bretton Woods institutions were created, and so have its governance needs in terms of institutions and rules. This text explores how to meet the needs of institutions and governance in the 21st century.
