Stephen C. Nelson

The Currency of Confidence

How Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers

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Produktbeschreibung

The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests in The Currency of Confidence, and its professional staff emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 238mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9781501705120
• ISBN-10: 1501705121
• Artikelnr.: 46978706

Autorenporträt

Stephen C. Nelson

Inhaltsangabe

1. Understanding the IMF and Its Borrowers2. How Shared Economic Beliefs Shape Loan Size
Conditionality
and Enforcement Decisions3. Playing Favorites: Quantitative Evidence Linking Shared Economic Beliefs to Variation in IMF Treatment4. Argentina and the IMF in Turbulent Times
1976-19845. From One Crisis to the Next: IMF-Argentine Relations
1985-20026. Staying Alive: IMF Lending Programs and the Political Survival of Economic Policymakers7. Implications
Extensions
and Speculations: The IMF and Its Borrowers
in and out of Hard Times