After the Fall: The Future of Global Cooperation

Jeffry Frieden, Michael Pettis, Dani Rodrik, Ernesto Zedillo 26 July 2012

The 14th Geneva Report on the World Economy asks: What are likely to be the principal issues facing the international economy over the next decade? What could a realistic analysis hope for in the way of progress in confronting the problems of the future? What are the constraints imposed by the realities of international and domestic politics? What forms of international economic cooperation are most important to pursue, and most likely to be achieved?

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Past Imperfect, Present Tense, Future Conditional

2 The Ghost of Globalisation Past: Lessons for Globalisation Present

3 The Current Situation

4 Global Economic Coordination: On Track or Doomed to Fail?

5 The Domestic Political Economy of International Economic Cooperation

6 The Normative Case for Governance of the International Economy

7 Macro is the New Trade: Future Problems of the International Economy

8 Looking Ahead

Discussions and Roundtables

Jeffry Frieden

Professor at Harvard University's Department of Government

Michael Pettis

Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Finance Professor, Guanghua School of Management at Peking University

Dani Rodrik

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University, and CEPR Research Fellow.

Ernesto Zedillo

Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, ex-President of Mexico

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