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The IMF’s Reconstruction of Economic Orthodoxy since the Crash
by Ben Clift* Analysing how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) contributes to prevailing understandings of sound economic policy reveals how economic orthodoxy is historically contingent, and throws into relief the malleability of economic policy credibility. These indirect IMF attempts to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, community members posts
Tagged economics, Eurozone crisis, financial crisis, fiscal policy, ideas, IMF, institutions, policy, Political economy
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The Washington Consensus: Sociology of Economics and History of Ideas
In 1989, John Williamson, a fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC which previously advised the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, presented a background paper to a conference aimed to explore how extensive were the policy reforms that were then … Continue reading
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Tagged ideas, IMF, institutional change, neoliberalism, policy, Sociology of economics, World Bank
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What crisis? Everything must (not) change so that the IMF can remain the same.
During the last years, some economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have presented papers, that allegedly rejected several neoliberal ideas (on a range of issues, from fiscal policy to capital controls) which have been preached and enforced by its … Continue reading
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Tagged market fundamentalism, crisis, economics, fiscal policy, global governance, IMF, monetary policy
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Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization
Economic sociologists and political economists must not stop their research at the stage of analyzing the policy and its implications, but rather must go deeper and examine how decisions are made within governance bodies and policy making organizations on national and … Continue reading
