The breathtaking behind-the-scenes story of the nearly disastrous global financial crisis of the late 1990s and how the International Monetary Fund tried-and failed-to stop it. At a time when the IMF has become the object of intense political controversy, The Chastening is the first book to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the Fund during an ...
This dramatic, definitive account of the most spectacular economic meltdown of modern times exposes the dangerous flaws of the global financial system In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and ...
In this work, an expert on the global economy dissects the lofty ambitions of the controversial World Trade Organization - and thereby, of globalization itself - and explains why free trade is not the answer to poverty and inequity. Globalization is in retreat. Western ideas of democracy have stalled. Bollywood outsells Hollywood. Raw market ...
This dramatic, definitive account of the most spectacular economic meltdown of modern times exposes the dangerous flaws of the global financial system. In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and ...
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