Includes bibliographical references and index.

Western hemisphere economies. The US recovery / David Hale ; The Canadian economy: prospects and challenges / Joshua Mendelsohn ; Mexico's interminable transition--2011 and beyond / Timothy Heyman ; Is Latin America changing? / Pedro Pablo Kuczynski -- Europe. The world bets on Europe, but the United States will probably win / Anatole Kaletsky -- Asia. Asia's paradigm shift / Louis-Vincent Gave ; Japan: return to normal / Robert Madsen ; Japan: the interregnum goes on / Richard B. Katz -- Southern hemisphere economies. Prospects for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2010-2011 / Keith Jefferis ; South Africa after 2010 / Iraj Abedian ; It didn't have to be that bad--the counterexample of Australia / Saul Eslake -- Reserve currencies. The future of the US dollar as a reserve currency / John Greenwood ; Will the gold rally continue? / David Hale -- The geopolitics of energy. In the shadow of peak oil, peak carbon, Iraqi nationalism, and paper barrels: the oil markets of the 2010s / Albert Bressand ; In the aftermath of Iran's latest revolution / Narimon Safavi ; Climate change: feasible policy and future carbon markets / Brian Fisher and Anna Matysek -- Crisis and reform. Were banks bust in 2009? And did they really need much more capital? / Tim Congdon ; The Tobin tax: creating a global fiscal system to fund global public goods / Andrew Sheng ; Fiscal imbalances, economic growth, and tax policy: plucking more feathers from the golden goose / Jack Mintz ; Dodd-Frank financial reforms have a broad scope, and will likely have a modest impact / Michael T. Lewis ; The future of corporate compliance / Carole Basri -- Neuroeconomics. The human side of investment decision-making / Thierry Malleret ; The diminishing returns of the information age / Mark Roeder.