This handbook on global economic policy is one in a set of six global policy handbooks. The other five deal with technology, social, political, international, and legal policy. Public policy studies in the past have tended to emphasize domestic policy, rather than cross-national policy. This is especially true of American policy studies which tend to be especially nation-bound. This is also true to some extent of policy studies in France, Russia, China, Brazil, and elsewhere. When American policy studies show an interest in other countries, those other countries tend to be exclusively Western European countries. This six-volume set, however, will include all the regions of the world, consisting of.