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Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization
Jeffrey M. Chwieroth
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Paperback. The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary Fund(IMF). This title explores the inner workings of the IMF to understand how its staff's thinking about capital controls changed so radically. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: JPSN; KCLF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary Fund, and the organization's formal rules providing this right have not changed significantly since the IMF was founded in 1945. But informally, among the staff inside the IMF, these controls became heresy in the 1980s and 1990s, prompting critics to accuse the IMF of indiscriminately encouraging the liberalization of controls and precipitating a wave of financial crises in emerging markets in the late 1990s. In Capital Ideas, Jeffrey Chwieroth explores the inner workings of the IMF to understand how its staff's thinking ... Read more
The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary Fund, and the organization's formal rules providing this right have not changed significantly since the IMF was founded in 1945. But informally, among the staff inside the IMF, these controls became heresy in the 1980s and 1990s, prompting critics to accuse the IMF of indiscriminately encouraging the liberalization of controls and precipitating a wave of financial crises in emerging markets in the late 1990s. In Capital Ideas, Jeffrey Chwieroth explores the inner workings of the IMF to understand how its staff's thinking ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691142326
SKU
V9780691142326
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About Jeffrey M. Chwieroth
Jeffrey M. Chwieroth is senior lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Reviews for Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization
"This book ... usefully traces the evolution of the thinking about this issue at the International Monetary Fund, the international body most concerned with it."
Foreign Affairs "Combining archival research, interviews, and his own survey research, [Chwieroth] provides a compelling history of how the IMF gradually changed from supporting capital controls to opposing them... Chwieroth's work fills an important void in ... Read more
Foreign Affairs "Combining archival research, interviews, and his own survey research, [Chwieroth] provides a compelling history of how the IMF gradually changed from supporting capital controls to opposing them... Chwieroth's work fills an important void in ... Read more