Lael Brainard

Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2009
Richard Feinberg

In this timely volume, Brainard and Martinez-Diaz concede that the Brazilian state's past fostering of national enterprises laid the foundation for the success of the country's global firms today -- in petrochemicals, aerospace, biofuels, and export-oriented agriculture.

Essay
Jan/Feb
2002
Lael Brainard

Paul Blustein offers an inside look at how the International Monetary Fund and world economic authorities navigated the chaos and confusion of the last global financial crisis -- in the hope that we might respond better to the next one.