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The Disorders Of Unrestricted Capital Mobility And The Limits Of The Orthodox Imagination: A Critique Of Robert Solomon, 'Money On The Move: The Revolution In International Finance Since 1980', Timothy A. Canova Jan 2000

The Disorders Of Unrestricted Capital Mobility And The Limits Of The Orthodox Imagination: A Critique Of Robert Solomon, 'Money On The Move: The Revolution In International Finance Since 1980', Timothy A. Canova

Timothy A. Canova

This book review provides a critique of Robert Solomon's' Money on the Move: The Revolution in International Finance since 1980'. According to the reviewer, Solomon has written a highly descriptive account of some of the major developments in global financial markets over the past two decades. His impressive compilation of events is couched in an objective, value-neutral narrative, thereby suggesting that the tide of orthodox policy reforms is as inevitable as the sun rising. But lurking just beneath the surface are the usual neoclassical assumptions that one might expect of a former chief international economist of the Federal Reserve Board: …