Financial Statecraft

By Benn Steil

Subjects: Capital movements, Foreign relations, International finance, Nonfiction, Government policy, Business, International relations, Financial institutions

Description: The time is ripe to ask fundamental questions about what Benn Steil and Robert Litan have coined as "financial statecraft," or those aspects of economic statecraft directed at influencing international capital flows. How precisely has the American government practiced financial statecraft? How effective have these efforts been? And how can they be made more effective? The authors provide penetrating and incisive answers in this timely and stimulating book.