Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...

The paper studies how global financial markets can be restructured so as to be more stable while also providing some national economic autonomy. An impossibility theorem sets the stage for the analysis of reform alternatives. Then, the relative merits of alternative exchange rate regimes and of...