| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 232 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Cornell studies in money
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Cornell studies in money.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
International Monetary Fund.
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International Monetary Fund. |
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Loans, Foreign.
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Loans, Foreign. |
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Financial crises.
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Financial crises. |
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Neoliberalism.
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Neoliberalism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
How economic beliefs shape the International Monetary Fund's relationship with its borrowers |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Nelson, Stephen C., 1980- Currency of confidence. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501705120 (DLC) 2016035600 |
| ISBN |
9781501708305 (electronic book) |
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1501708309 (electronic book) |
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9781501708299 (electronic book) |
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1501708295 (electronic book) |
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9781501705120 (hardcover) |
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