Is the international financial architecture debate over? Not according to leading experts gathered together in this impressive volume who try to identify the key trends that will fashion the international financial system in the years ahead. As history has shown, the evolution of the...

At present primarily governed by market forces with little regulatory interference, international financial relations have become increasingly important for global as well as national economies. Contributors to this volume consider whether this absence of regulation is wise, in the light of...

Introduction -- Normative change from within -- Capital ideas and controls -- Capital controlled : the early postwar era -- The limits and hollowness of Keynesianism in the 1960s -- Formal change and informal continuity : the reform negotiations of the 1970s -- Capital freed : informal change...