The bridge to a global middle class : development, trade, and international finance / edited by Walter Russell Mead and Sherle R. Schwenninger.

"A Council on Foreign Relations book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Ch. 1. A Financial Architecture for Middle-Class-Oriented Development (Mead and Schwenninger) -- Ch. 2. Private Capital Flows, Emerging Economies, and International Financial Architecture (Yago) -- Ch. 3. Building the Financial Infrastructure for Middle Class Emerging Economies (D'Arista) -- Ch. 4. Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture (Eatwell and Taylor) -- Ch. 5. Solving the Currency Conundrum (Eichengreen) -- Ch. 6. The Diminishing Returns to Export-Led Growth (Blecker) -- Ch. 7. The American Stock Market as a Financial Risk: A Discussion of Historic and Demographic Risks (Dugger, McNally and Medley) -- Ch. 8. Reforming and Deepening Mexico's Financial Markets (Lopez-de-Silanes) -- Ch. 9. Economic Crisis and Corporate Reform in East Asia (Woo-Cumings) -- Ch. 10. Cultural Contradictions of Post-Communism: Why Liberal Reforms Did Not Succeed in Russia (Khrushcheva) -- Ch. 11. Korea's Comeback: The Government's Predicament (Root) -- Ch. 12. Sustainable Development and the Open-door Policy in China (Galbraith and Lu) -- Ch. 13. The Paradox of Free Market Democracy: Indonesia and the Problems Facing Neoliberal Reform (Chua).