Capital ideas : the IMF and the rise of financial liberalization /

Chwieroth, Jeffrey M., 1975-

Capital ideas : the IMF and the rise of financial liberalization / Jeffrey M. Chwieroth. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xviii, 311 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Normative change from within -- Capital ideas and controls -- Capital controlled : the early postwar era -- The limits and hollowness of Keynesianism in the 1960s -- Formal change and informal continuity : the reform negotiations of the 1970s -- Capital freed : informal change from the 1980s to the mid-1990s -- Capital in crisis : financial turmoil in the late 1990s -- Norm continuity and organizational legitimacy from the Asian crisis to the subprime crisis -- Epilogue : A subprime "crisis" for capital freedom?

In this work, Jeffrey Chwieroth explores the inner workings of the IMF to understand how it staff's thinking about capital controls changed so radically. In doing so, he also provides an important case study of how international organizations work and evolve.


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International Monetary Fund.
International Monetary Fund.


Financial services industry--Deregulation.
Finance--Government policy.
Credit control.
Financial crises.
Credit control--Law and legislation.
Services financiers--Déréglementation.
Finances--Politique gouvernementale.
Crédit--Politique gouvernementale.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Economic Policy.
Credit control.
Finance--Government policy.
Financial crises.
Financial services industry--Deregulation.


Electronic book.
Electronic books.

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