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The currency of confidence : how economic beliefs shape the IMF's relationship with its borrowers / Stephen C. Nelson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell studies in moneyPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017Copyright date: �2017Description: 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501708305
  • 1501708309
  • 9781501708299
  • 1501708295
Other title:
  • How economic beliefs shape the International Monetary Fund's relationship with its borrowers
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Currency of confidence.DDC classification:
  • 332.1/52 23
LOC classification:
  • HG3881.5.I58 N45 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2017).

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.

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