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Who Elected the Bankers?: Surveillance and Control in the World Economy
Louis W. Pauly
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hardcover. Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
A former banker and staff member of the International Monetary Fund, Louis W. Pauly explains why people are deeply concerned about the emergence of a global economy and the increasingly integrated capital markets at its heart. In nations as diverse as France, Canada, Russia, and Mexico, the lives of citizens are disrupted when national policy falls out of line with the expectations of international financiers. Such dilemmas, ever more conspicuous around the world, arise from the disjuncture between a rapidly changing international economic system and a political order still constituted by sovereign states. The evolution of global capital markets inspires ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801433221
SKU
V9780801433221
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About Louis W. Pauly
Louis W. Pauly is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the coeditor of Governing the World's Money and the author of Opening Financial Markets: Banking Politics on the Pacific Rim, both from Cornell, and coauthor or coeditor of several other books, including Complex Sovereignty.
Reviews for Who Elected the Bankers?: Surveillance and Control in the World Economy
Louis Pauly obviously was intent upon startling people when he set out to write the story of the International Monetary Fund, a group that he believes is credited with wielding far more power than it really has. In a careful discussion of the failings of the League of Nations, Pauly details how industrialized nations moved to create the IMF in ... Read more