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The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests in
The Currency of Confidence, and its professional staff emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists.
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1. Understanding the IMF and Its Borrowers2. How Shared Economic Beliefs Shape Loan Size, Conditionality, and Enforcement Decisions3. Playing Favorites: Quantitative Evidence Linking Shared Economic Beliefs to Variation in IMF Treatment4. Argentina and the IMF in Turbulent Times, 1976-19845. From One Crisis to the Next: IMF-Argentine Relations, 1985-20026. Staying Alive: IMF Lending Programs and the Political Survival of Economic Policymakers7. Implications, Extensions, and Speculations: The IMF and Its Borrowers, in and out of Hard Times
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Stephen C. Nelson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. In 2010 he won the American Political Science Award's Helen Dwight Reid Award for best dissertation in the field of international relations.
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The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests in The Currency of Confidence, and its professional staff emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists.
