Understanding the IMF and its borrowers -- How shared economic beliefs shape loan size, conditionality, and enforcement decisions -- Playing favorites : quantitative evidence linking shared economic beliefs to variation in IMF treatment -- Argentina and the IMF in turbulent times, 1976-1984 -- From one crisis to the next : IMF-Argentine relations, 1985-2002 -- Staying alive : IMF lending programs and the political survival of economic policymakers -- Implications, extensions, and speculations : the IMF and its borrowers, in and out of hard times.
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This work suggests that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, with professional staff who emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists.
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Currency of confidence.
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9781501705120
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How economic beliefs shape the International Monetary Fund's relationship with its borrowers