TY - BOOK AU - Little,Jane Sneddon ED - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. TI - Global imbalances and the evolving world economy T2 - Conference series PY - 2008/// CY - Boston, Mass. PB - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston KW - Balance of payments KW - Balance of trade KW - International finance N1 - ""This edited volume is based on a conference held in June 2006 by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.""; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Rebalancing act: global imbalances in a changing world; Jane Sneddon Little --; Box: the economic importance of the emerging giants; Selva Bahar Baziki --; Dancing with giants: the geopolitics of East Asia in the twenty-first century; Stephen W. Bosworth --; Lessons from history --; Losing our marbles in the new century? The great rebalancing in historical perspective; Christopher M. Meissner and; Alan M. Taylor --; Comments; Suzanne Berger --; Comments; John F. Helliwell --; Labor market imbalances --; Labor market imbalances: shortages, surpluses, or what?; Richard B. Freeman --; Comments; Surjit S. Bhalla --; Comments; Alan V. Deardorff --; The essential complements to capital --; Capital and its complements in economic growth; J. Bradford DeLong --; Comments; Abhijit V. Banerjee --; Comments; Lixin Colin Xu --; Imbalances between savings and investment --; Understanding global imbalances; Richard N. Cooper --; Comments; Guy Debelle --; Comments; Laurence J. Kotlikoff --; Adjustment mechanisms --; Interest rates, exchange rates, and international adjustments; Michael P. Dooley; David Folkerts-Landau, and; Peter M. Garber --; Comments; Catherine L. Mann --; Comments; Eswar S. Prasad --; Appropriate adjustment considerations and policies --; An Indian perspective on global imbalances and potential policy responses; Shankar Acharya --; The effects of globalization on inflation and the implications for monetary policy; Donald L. Kohn --; Five policy-relevant observations and an epilogue for 2008; Lawrence H. Summers ER -