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024 7 _a10.1515/9781501708305
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501708305
035 _a(DE-B1597)492928
035 _a(OCoLC)956435223
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNelson, Stephen C.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Currency of Confidence :
_bHow Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers /
_cStephen C. Nelson.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (248 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aCornell Studies in Money
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tTables and Figures --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. Understanding the IMF and Its Borrowers --
_t2. How Shared Economic Beliefs Shape Loan Size, Conditionality, and Enforcement Decisions --
_t3. Playing Favorites: Quantitative Evidence Linking Shared Economic Beliefs to Variation in IMF Treatment --
_t4. Argentina and the IMF in Turbulent Times, 1976–1984 --
_t5. From One Crisis to the Next: IMF-Argentine Relations, 1985–2002 --
_t6. Staying Alive: IMF Lending Programs and the Political Survival of Economic Policymakers --
_t7. Implications, Extensions, and Speculations: The IMF and Its Borrowers, in and out of Hard Times --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe 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 country's top officials; that trust in turn depends on the educational credentials of the policy team that Fund officials face across the negotiating table. Intellectual differences thus lead to lasting economic effects for the citizens of countries seeking IMF support.Based on deep archival research in IMF archives and personnel files, Nelson argues that the IMF has been the Johnny Appleseed of neoliberalism: neoliberal policymakers sprout and take root in countries that have spent recent decades living under the Fund’s conditional lending arrangements. Nelson supports his argument through quantitative measures and illustrates the dynamics of relations between the Fund and client countries in a detailed examination of newly available archives of four periods in Argentina’s long and often bitter relations with the IMF. The Currency of Confidence ends with Nelson’s examination of how the IMF emerged from the global financial crisis as an unexpected victor.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aFinancial crises.
650 0 _aLoans, Foreign.
650 0 _aNeoliberalism.
650 4 _aGeneral Economics.
650 4 _aPolitical Science & Political History.
650 4 _aPublic Policy.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.
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653 _aIMF, International Monetary Fund, politics of IMF, neoliberalism, conditional lending arrangements, financial assistance, public confidence, economic relationships, macroeconomics.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501708305?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501708305
856 4 2 _3Cover
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