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As former Director of Research and a founding member of the
Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, Jacques J.
Polak has advised theoreticians and policymakers worldwide. This
collection brings together his most current writings, and is
published under the auspices of the IMF. The hallmark of Dr.
Polak's recent research has been his ability to draw on decades of
personal experience and reflection to comprehend and describe the
context for current policy debates. In the past decade, he has
contributed much to the debates on international financial policy
and the role of the IMF, and this volume brings together most of
these recent papers to make them accessible to a broader audience.
Former students of Dr H. J. Witteveen and many of those who
collaborated with him in the past decades have decided a while ago
that his great scientific and social merits are ample reason for
presenting him with a Liber Amicorum. The fortieth anniversary of
his appointment as professor at the Netherlands School of Economics
in Rotterdam in the Spring of 1988 seemed a suitable time for
presentation. For this purpose a committee was formed consisting of
the members listed below. The last three of these also act as
editorial committee of this anniversary volume. The topic the
editorial committee chose is 'The quest for national and global
economic stability'; this topic has always attracted Dr Witteveen's
special attention and is in fact the common theme of his
publications and speeches. In compiling this volume, the editorial
committee tried to give expression to the three fields in which Dr
Witt eve en developed his main activities: university, politics and
international economic organizations. The committee is deeply
grateful to the authors who promised and supplied their
contributions with great enthusiasm. All contributions were
completed before August 1, 1987.
This two volume set brings together a key selection of papers
written by Jacques J. Polak over the last 50 years in the fields of
economics, econometrics and finance. Presented under five broad
headings, the collection begins with his work on international and
national business cycles - a subject on which the author worked
with Nobel Prize winner Jan Tinbergen - problems of international
trade and balance of payments adjustment. Later sections examine
exchange rates and how they affect the balance of payments,
inflation and hyperinflation; the monetary approach to the balance
of payments, a subject that the author pioneered in the IMF and
that became the framework of the conditionality of IMF credits; and
international liquidity, with particular reference to the special
drawing right (SDR). The final section features the author's essays
on the international monetary system itself, including topics such
as the international co ordination of national economic policies,
the changes over time in the objectives of national policy making
in the main industrial countries and reform of the system. Economic
Theory and Financial Policy will be welcomed by researchers,
students and practitioners concerned with economics, government
finance, banking and international economic relations.
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