The Currency of Confidence : : How Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers / / Stephen C. Nelson.
The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests, and its professional staff emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists. The IMF treats countries differently depending on whether that staff trusts the c...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Money
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Understanding the IMF and Its Borrowers
- 2. How Shared Economic Beliefs Shape Loan Size, Conditionality, and Enforcement Decisions
- 3. Playing Favorites: Quantitative Evidence Linking Shared Economic Beliefs to Variation in IMF Treatment
- 4. Argentina and the IMF in Turbulent Times, 1976–1984
- 5. From One Crisis to the Next: IMF-Argentine Relations, 1985–2002
- 6. Staying Alive: IMF Lending Programs and the Political Survival of Economic Policymakers
- 7. Implications, Extensions, and Speculations: The IMF and Its Borrowers, in and out of Hard Times
- References
- Index