Introduction

Abstract

This is a policy-oriented book on international finance. Rather than attempting to be completely comprehensive, it sets out to provide a succinct treatment of some of the more important issues that have come to dominate discussions of international financial reform. Given the increasingly frequent calls that have been made for a new Bretton Woods conference to reform existing international financial arrangements, it seems appropriate to examine the items that would be on the agenda for such a conference, and this is the book’s principal objective.