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The Currency of Confidence : How Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers /

This work suggests that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, with professional staff who emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nelson, Stephen C., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Understanding the IMF and its borrowers
  • How shared economic beliefs shape loan size, conditionality, and enforcement decisions
  • Playing favorites : quantitative evidence linking shared economic beliefs to variation in IMF treatment
  • Argentina and the IMF in turbulent times, 1976-1984
  • From one crisis to the next : IMF-Argentine relations, 1985-2002
  • Staying alive : IMF lending programs and the political survival of economic policymakers
  • Implications, extensions, and speculations : the IMF and its borrowers, in and out of hard times.