The Multilateral and Financial System: Challenges Ahead

Author: SAKONG, Il (editor)
Title: The Multilateral and Financial System: Challenges Ahead
Publication: Seoul, Korea: Korea Foreign Trade Association, 1995

Description: Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy wrappers. 133pp. Near fine.

Tight and attractive first edition of this Seoul Global Trade Forum study featuring essays from three notables in this field. Superb presentation copy, for Sakong (born 1940), the influential chair of the nonprofit research Institute for Glbal Economics, boldly inscribes and signs the front flyleaf in black ink: "To Adlai Stevenson / with the compliments / of / Il Sakong / May 11, 1996." Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021) -- son of the governor, great-grandson of the vice president -- served as U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81) and post-Senate was closely involved in Korean affairs and Asian economics as chairman of the first Sino-U.S. intermediary company.

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