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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Chwieroth, Jeffrey M. 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] Princeton University Press 2010
Subjects:	International Monetary Fund Internationaler Währungsfonds Financial services industry / Deregulation Finance / Government policy Credit control Financial crises Politik Finance > Government policy Financial services industry > Deregulation Finanzkrise Kreditmarkt Deregulierung
Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index 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?
Physical Description:	XVIII, 311 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:	9780691142319 9780691142326