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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The revolutionary background -- Chapter 2: Philosophy and science -- Chapter 3: Philosophy and history -- Chapter 4: Fact and language -- Chapter 5: Language and perception -- Chapter 6: Scepticism -- Chapter 7: Ordinary language -- Chapter 8: Conceptual schemes and categorial frameworks -- Bibliography -- Index.

This Companionprovides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant's work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest.Written by an international cast of scholarsCovers all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-critical worksSubjects covered range from mathematics and philosophy of science, through epistemology and metaphysics, to moral and political philosophy

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Theory -- 2 An Open-economy Macroeconomic Model -- Introduction -- From Simple Closed- to Simple Open-economy Models -- IS-LM and the Open Economy -- The Foreign Trade or Open-economy Multiplier -- The Transmission of Changes in Economic Activity between Economies -- Some Reservations about the Simple Open-economy Model -- Prices in the Open-economy Model -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- 3 Trade Functions and Capital Movements -- Introduction -- The Import Function -- The Export Function -- The Capital Account: Flow or Stock Theory? -- Disaggregating Capital Flows -- 4 Balance of Payments Theory -- Introduction -- A Basic Model of the Balance of Payments -- Shifts in IS: The Absorption Approach -- Shifts in LM: The Monetary Approach -- Shifts in BP: The Structural Approach -- Synthesising the Approaches: Towards a General Theory -- 5 Theories of Exchange-rate Determination -- Introduction -- Structural and Absorption Factors: Shifts in BP and IS -- The Monetary Approach: Shifts in LM -- Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) -- The Asset Market Approach -- Expectations and Exchange Rates -- Overshooting -- Forward Markets -- Synthesising the Approaches: Some Tentative Conclusions -- 6 Theories of Currency Crisis -- Introduction -- Currency Crisis Models -- Can Crises be Anticipated? -- Crises and Contagion -- Policies During a Crisis and the Aftermath of Crises -- Part II Policy -- 7 Balance of Payments Policy -- Introduction -- To Adjust or to Finance? -- What Does Adjustment Involve? -- Commercial Policy and the Balance of Payments -- Structural Adjustment and the Supply Side -- Choosing a Balance of Payments Policy: The Political Economy Dimension -- Policy at National and Global Levels -- 8 Stabilisation Policy in an Open Economy.

This collection of articles and papers has been organised under a limited number of specific themes in international financial economics, including balance of payment theory and policy, the activities of the IMF, Special Drawing Rights, the role of the private financial markets, and the international economic order. A unifying theme running through all the essays is that some degree of management of international financial affairs is desirable. The book has a strong policy orientation and should be of interest to students and practitioners of international financial economics alike.

In this book the author investigates the relationship between the international monetary system and the less developed countries of the world. In the period since 1945 growing concern has been shown over the international monetary problems which LDCs face, and since 1971 LDCs have been significant participants in the reform of the international monetary system. After tracing the evolution of the relationship between LDCs and the International Monetary Fund, the book goes on to examine, with full reference to the available empirical evidence, the major causes and consequences of LDCs' international monetary problems. Topics covered include: export instability; the terms of trade; the demand for reserves and reserve adequacy; and adjustment difficulties. A thorough examination is then made of the ways in which financial assistance has been provided to LDCs through the IMF and the Eurocurrency market. Finally, certain key policy issues are discussed: the commodity problem; the link between the creation of international liquidity and the provision of development aid; and exchange rate policy. Each chapter is followed by an extensive bibliography which is designed to help the reader to pursue further any topic of particular interest. The presentation, which is non-mathematical, is in the form of a textbook. The issues are surveyed, the main arguments discussed, and the available empirical evidence presented. It is revealed, however, that on many issues it is at present difficult to draw firm conclusions. The book will be of interest to students of international, monetary, and development economics.