Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. WESTERN HEMISPHERE ECONOMIES -- 1 The US Recovery -- 2 The Canadian Economy: Prospects and Challenges -- 3 Mexico's Interminable Transition-2011 and Beyond -- 4 Is Latin America Changing? -- II. EUROPE -- 5 The World Bets on Europe, but the United States Will Probably Win -- III. ASIA -- 6 Asia's Paradigm Shift -- 7 Japan: Return to Normal -- 8 Japan: The Interregnum Goes On -- IV. SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ECONOMIES -- 9 Prospects for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2010-2011 -- 10 South Africa After 2010 -- 11 It Didn't Have to Be That Bad-The Counterexample of Australia -- V. RESERVE CURRENCIES -- 12 The Future of the US Dollar as a Reserve Currency -- 13 Will the Gold Rally Continue? -- VI. THE GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY -- 14 In the Shadow of Peak Oil, Peak Carbon, Iraqi Nationalism, and Paper Barrels: The Oil Markets of the 2010s -- 15 In the Aftermath of Iran's Latest Revolution -- 16 Climate Change: Feasible Policy and Future Carbon Markets -- VII. CRISIS AND REFORM -- 17 Were Banks Bust in 2009? And Did They Really Need Much More Capital? -- 18 The Tobin Tax: Creating a Global Fiscal System to Fund Global Public Goods -- 19 Fiscal Imbalances, Economic Growth, and Tax Policy: Plucking More Feathers from the Golden Goose -- 20 Dodd-Frank Financial Reforms Have a Broad Scope, and Will Likely Have a Modest Impact -- 21 The Future of Corporate Compliance -- VIII. NEUROECONOMICS -- 22 The Human Side of Investment Decision- Making -- 23 The Diminishing Returns of the Information Age -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.