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" The currency of confidence : "
Stephen C. Nelson.
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BL
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852216
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Nelson, Stephen C.,1980-
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The currency of confidence : : how economic beliefs shape the IMF's relationship with its borrowers /\ Stephen C. Nelson.
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Ithaca :: Cornell University Press,, 2017.
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, ©2017
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Cornell studies in money
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1 online resource (xi, 232 pages)
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1501708295
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: 1501708309
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: 9781501708299
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: 9781501708305
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9781501705120
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Understanding the IMF and its borrowers -- How shared economic beliefs shape loan size, conditionality, and enforcement decisions -- Playing favorites : quantitative evidence linking shared economic beliefs to variation in IMF treatment -- Argentina and the IMF in turbulent times, 1976-1984 -- From one crisis to the next : IMF-Argentine relations, 1985-2002 -- Staying alive : IMF lending programs and the political survival of economic policymakers -- Implications, extensions, and speculations : the IMF and its borrowers, in and out of hard times.
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This work suggests that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, with professional staff who emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists.
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International Monetary Fund.
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International Monetary Fund.
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Financial crises.
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Loans, Foreign.
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Neoliberalism.
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Financial crises.
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Loans, Foreign.
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Neoliberalism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Economy.
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| Dewey Classification
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332.1/52
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HG3881.5.I58N45 2017
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| Parallel Title
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How economic beliefs shape the International Monetary Fund's relationship with its borrowers
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