Attention: Deficit Disorder!: The G-20’s Modest Steps Toward a More Coordinated Fiscal Policy

Political scientists Edward A. Fogarty and Gene Park argue that the world’s response to the 2008 economic crisis demonstrates that, when the next global economic disaster hits, members of the G-20 will work together. Outside of crisis, the G-20 can only be expected to take baby steps toward greater coordination and fiscal transparency.