The Currency of Confidence: How Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers
Awards:   Winner of Peter Katzenstein Book Prize (United States). Winner of Peter Katzenstein Book Prize 2020 (United States)
Author:   Stephen C. Nelson
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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9781501705120


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   07 February 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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Awards

  • Winner of Peter Katzenstein Book Prize (United States).
  • Winner of Peter Katzenstein Book Prize 2020 (United States)

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Author:   Stephen C. Nelson
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781501705120


ISBN 10:   1501705121
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   07 February 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Understanding the IMF and Its Borrowers 2. How Shared Economic Beliefs Shape Loan Size, Conditionality, and Enforcement Decisions 3. Playing Favorites: Quantitative Evidence Linking Shared Economic Beliefs to Variation in IMF Treatment 4. Argentina and the IMF in Turbulent Times, 1976-1984 5. From One Crisis to the Next: IMF-Argentine Relations, 1985-2002 6. Staying Alive: IMF Lending Programs and the Political Survival of Economic Policymakers 7. Implications, Extensions, and Speculations: The IMF and Its Borrowers, in and out of Hard Times

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Stephen C. Nelson offers an innovative analysis of the often fraught relationship between the IMF and its borrowers. He systematically shows how social conventions help decision makers cope with uncertainty and stifle dissent. This outstanding book provides much insight into the contentious ideological foundations of a rapidly evolving global economy. -Louis W. Pauly, FRSC, University of Toronto, author of Who Elected the Bankers? In The Currency of Confidence, Stephen C. Nelson uses a combination of quantitative analysis and case studies to define the extent to which the IMF's economic beliefs influence its lending decisions. Nelson's pathbreaking analytics and accessible writing style will appeal to economists, political scientists, and policymakers alike. -Kevin P. Gallagher, Boston University, author of Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance


Author Information

Stephen C. Nelson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. In 2010 he won the American Political Science Award's Helen Dwight Reid Award for best dissertation in the field of international relations.

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