Daniel Mcdowell

Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?

The United States, the Imf, and the International Lender of Last Resort

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Produktbeschreibung

Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? explores how and why the U.S. has regularly acted, often alongside the IMF, as an international lender of last resort by selectively bailing out foreign economies in crisis. Daniel McDowell highlights the unique role that the U.S. has played in stabilizing the world economy from the 1960s through 2008.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780190936341
• ISBN-10: 0190936347
• Artikelnr.: 53931783

Autorenporträt

Daniel McDowell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. His work has been published in International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Organizations, and New Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Figures
* Table of Tables
* Preface
* List of Abbreviations
* CHAPTER 1 - Introduction
* CHAPTER 2 - The ILLR in Theory and Practice
* CHAPTER 3 - The United States Invents its Own ILLR, 1961-1962
* CHAPTER 4 - The Exchange Stabilization Fund and the IMF in the 1980s
and 1990s
* CHAPTER 5 - Who's In, Who's Out, and Why? Selecting Whom to Bailout,
1983-1999
* CHAPTER 6 - U.S. International Bailouts in the 1980s and 1990s
* CHAPTER 7 - The United States as ILLR during the Great Panic of
2008-2009
* CHAPTER 8 - Conclusions
* BIBLIOGRAPHY
* APPENDIX