Ben Clift (University of Warwick Professor of Political Economy)

IMF & Politics Austerity Glob Fin Cris C

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the IMF's role as arbiter of legitimate economic policy since the 2008 crash, and during aftershocks of the Eurozone crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780198813088
• ISBN-10: 0198813082
• Artikelnr.: 51255692

Autorenporträt

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He is author of Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism (Palgrave, 2014), French Socialism in a Global Era (Continuum, 2003), and co-editor of Economic Patriotism: Political Intervention in Open Markets (Routledge, 2012) and Where Are National Capitalisms Now? (Palgrave 2004). He has published widely on the politics of economic ideas, the IMF, French and comparative capitalisms, the political economy of social democracy, and French and British politics in journals including British Journal of Political Science , Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global
Financial Crisis
* 2: Ideational Change at the IMF after the Crash
* 3: IMF, Economic Schools of Thought, and Their Normative
Underpinnings
* 4: Analysing the IMF Surveillance of Advanced Economies: The Social
Construction of Fiscal Space
* 5: The Fund's Fiscal Policy Views and the Politics of Austerity
* 6: The IMF, the UK Policy Debate, and Debt and Deficit Discourse
* 7: The IMF and the French Fiscal Rectitude amidst the Eurozone Crisis
* Conclusion - IMF Intellectual Authority and the Politics of Economic
Ideas After the Crash