The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780198813088 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Ben Clift

Opis

This book analyses the IMF's role as arbiter of legitimate economic policy since the 2008 crash, and during aftershocks of the Eurozone crisis.

Recenzje

This theoretically and empirically rich book challenges those who see the IMF always as an ideologically rigid enforcer of fiscal austerity. In analyzing the Fund's less orthodox positions in post-2008 debates about fiscal policy in the European context, Clift develops a fascinating analysis that should be read by all those interested in the politics of economic ideas, the ideational significance of international organizations, and global financial governance after the 2008 financial crash.

O autorze

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He is author of Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism (Palgrave, 2014), French Socialism in a Global Era (Continuum, 2003), and co-editor of Economic Patriotism: Political Intervention in Open Markets (Routledge, 2012) and Where Are National Capitalisms Now? (Palgrave 2004). He has published widely on the politics of economic ideas, the IMF, French and comparative capitalisms, the political economy of social democracy, and French and British politics in journals including British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy.