Books by Graham Bird

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.

This book focuses on the international financial problems of developing countries and the ways in which international financial policy might be used to alleviate them. At the very least, a distinction needs to be drawn between the newly industrialising countries of Latin America and South-east Asia and the low income countries of Africa and Asia.

The main purpose of this book is to show the relevance of international macroeconomics to understanding the world economy. It provides a succinct summary of open economy macroeconomics from a theoretical perspective and analyzes policy covering the balance of payments, exchange rates, capital flows and the co-ordination of macroeconomic policy.

"The Revolutionary Kant" offers a new appreciation of Kant's classic, arguing that Kant's reform of philosophy was far more radical than has been previously understood. The book examines his proposed revolutionary reform -- to abandon traditional metaphysics and point philosophy in a new direction -- and contends that critics have misrepresented conflicts between Kant and his predecessors. Kant, Bird argues, was not a flawed innovator but an advocate of a new philosophical project, one that began to be appreciated only in the twentieth century.

Starting with a historical background tracing the evolution of the International Monetary Fund, this book goes on to cover such themes as: the circumstances under which countries turn to the IMF; the various aspects of IMF conditionality; and, institutional issues such as lending facilities and how the fund is resourced.

Argues that, to have a future, the International Monetary Fund must reassess its own borrowing.