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The Politics of IMF Lending (International Political Economy Series)
Michael Breen
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Description for The Politics of IMF Lending (International Political Economy Series)
Hardcover. Michael Breen examines how the economic exposure of the IMF's large shareholders affects its lending and conditionality. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; KCLF; KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
As national governments continue to disagree over how to respond to the aftermath of the global financial crisis, two of the few areas of consensus were the decisions to increase the IMF's capacity to respond and remove the policies designed to limit the use of its resources. Why was this massive increase in the size of the IMF, accompanied by the removal of policies designed to limit moral hazard, such an easy point of consensus? Michael Breen looks at the hidden politics behind IMF lending and proposes a new theory based on shareholder control. To test this theory, he combines ... Read more
As national governments continue to disagree over how to respond to the aftermath of the global financial crisis, two of the few areas of consensus were the decisions to increase the IMF's capacity to respond and remove the policies designed to limit the use of its resources. Why was this massive increase in the size of the IMF, accompanied by the removal of policies designed to limit moral hazard, such an easy point of consensus? Michael Breen looks at the hidden politics behind IMF lending and proposes a new theory based on shareholder control. To test this theory, he combines ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
International Political Economy Series
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137263803
SKU
V9781137263803
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Ref
99-15
About Michael Breen
Michael Breen is Lecturer at Dublin City University, Ireland, specializing in International Relations and International Political Economy. His recent work on the IMF has been published in the European Journal of International Relations and his work on the politics of sovereign debt is forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly.
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