Currency Wars, Capital Controls, and the Outlook for the International Monetary System

Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Presider
Director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics,, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Discussants
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, Money, Markets, and Sovereignty
Ajay Shah
Professor, National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
Alan M. Taylor
Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley; Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy, University of California, Davis

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