Professor Leszek Balcerowicz of the Warsaw School of Economics, and member of the Atlantic Council's Business & Economics Advisors Group, recently gave a speech at the German Federal Ministry of Finance entitled "Fiscal Stance, Macroeconomic Stability, Growth."

On November 15^th, the Atlantic Council convened a panel of international economic relations experts to analyze and evaluate last week’s G-20 summit in Seoul, Korea, and to forecast the challenges that will face the G-20 next year.

How do you transform the International Monetary Fund, an institution until recently widely criticised for its lack of legitimacy and representativeness, on the verge of irrelevance, into the international community’s premier tool for fighting the global crisis? -->

Tim Adams, member of the Atlantic Council Business and Economics Advisors Group, and Arrigo Sadun, member of the IMF executive board, published "Global Economic Council Should Oversee All" in the Financial Times. 

André Sapir, a member of the Atlantic Council's Business and Economics Advisors Group, is an Economics Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank.  I had the opportunity to gather his thoughts on some key issues of interest to the Atlantic Council community.

Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development and a member of the Atlantic Council's Business and Economics Advisors Group, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade.

Mario Monti, a member of the Atlantic Council's Business and Economic Advisors Group is  president of Bocconi University and the former EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, Tax Policy (1995-1999) and Competiton (1999-2005).  I had the opportunity to get his thoughts on some key issues of interest to the Atlantic Council community.

If the world economy is in crisis, the market economy is even more in crisis. It is seen as unfair, having generated unacceptable inequalities; and inefficient, having attracted massive resources into financial activities whose contribution to the economy is questioned. Yet the world needs an integrated market economy, a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for growth and welfare.