The International Monetary Fund and Latin America : The Argentine Puzzle in Context / / Claudia Kedar.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a critical role in the global economy since the postwar era. But, claims Claudia Kedar, behind the strictly economic aspects of the IMF's intervention, there are influential interactions between IMF technocrats and local economists-even when coun...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : Temple University Press,, 2013.
Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2013
©2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (265 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Multilateralism from the Margins: Latin America and the Founding of the IMF, 1942-1945; 2. It Takes Three to Tango: Argentina, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and the United States, 1946-1956; 3. Dependency in the Making: The First Loan Agreement and the Consolidation of the Formal Relationship with the IMF, 1957-1961; 4. Fluctuations in the Routine of Dependency: Argentine-IMF Relations in a Decade of Political Instability, 1962-1972; 5. All Regimes Are Legitimate: The IMF's Relations with Democracies and Dictatorships, 1973-1982
  • 6. Routine of Dependency or Routine of Detachment? Looking for a New Model of Relations with the IMFConclusions; Notes; References; Index