Amazon.com description: Product Description: This directory provides a comprehensive international coverage of institutions involved in economic research, policy debate and dissemination of ideas. It is also a guide to researchers and users on the whole range of work going on in a vast number of institutions. It is useful to the institutions themselves, to industry and commercial organizations, government departments and libraries in all academic institutions. Entries will give the name, address and telephone number of each institution as well as brief details of funding, research granting and purposes. Also listed will be directors and regular publications. Professor Forrest Capie is editor of "Financial Crises and the World Banking System" and "Monetary Economics in the 1980s".