The economics of globalization : policy perspectives from public economics / edited by Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka.

"First published 1999, this digitally printed version 2008" -- Verso title page. "Essays based on lectures delivered at the 1996 Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance" -- Back cover. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The growing economic openness expressed in the globalization of independent economic systems has created problems as well as opportunities that cross formal borders in new and unexpected ways. Professors Razin and Sadka have compiled a series of papers based on lectures delivered before the 1996 Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, which explore these issues in selected areas of public finance. The subjects covered range from the consequences of research and development to the redistribution of income and from taxation of multinationals and labor migration to European currency integration.