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.

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 is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. In 2010 he won the American Political Science Award's Helen Dwight Reid Award for best dissertation in the field of international relations.

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