The International Monetary Fund and Latin America: The Argentine Puzzle in Context

Author:   Claudia Kedar
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
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Pages:   264
Publication Date:   28 December 2012
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Reveals both routine and behind-the-scenes practices that have characterized International Monetary Fund-Latin American relations in general and IMF-Argentina relations in particular, from 1944 to the present

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Author:   Claudia Kedar
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781439909096


ISBN 10:   1439909091
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   28 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Multilateralism from the Margins: Latin America and the Foundation of the IMF, 1942-1945; 2 It Takes Three to Tango: Peron, the Bretton Woods Institutions and the United States, 1946-1956; 3 Dependency in the Making: The First Loan Arrangement and the Consolidation of Formal Relationship with the IMF, 1957-1961; 4 Fluctuations in the Routine of Dependency: Argentina-IMF Relations in a Decade of Political Instability, 1962-1972; 5 All Regimes are Legitimate: IMF's Relations with Democracies and Dictatorships, 1973-1982; 6 Conclusions Bibliography

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Kedar's book derives from her success in clarifying the objectives of the IMF, while describing the conditions under which they were adopted or rejected... It is well written, exhaustive, and contains many sound judgments. Kedar has interdisciplinary abilities as a historian and an economist. --Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2013


""Kedar's book derives from her success in clarifying the objectives of the IMF, while describing the conditions under which they were adopted or rejected... It is well written, exhaustive, and contains many sound judgments. Kedar has interdisciplinary abilities as a historian and an economist."" - Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2013 ""Kedar's study of Argentine interactions with the IMF is a welcome and impressive addition... With its clear and straightforward writing, the book is a challenging prompt for comparable studies on Brazil and Mexico, which are long overdue. Its academic significance is enhanced by the fact that it is in line with current debates about the beliefs, actual behavior, and influence of Washington politics on the procedures and policies of multilateral financial institutions, which important scholars...have pushed forward in the last decade."" - Hispanic American Historical Review ""Kedar makes meticulous use of IMF documents dating back to the 1940s, and triangulates with Argentine government documents and materials from the U.S. and British National Archives...[T]wo things about this book set it apart from the familiar chronicle. The first is its firm grounding in an impressive array of original historical documents... Second, Kedar is part of a new movement of scholars seeking to update traditional theoretical understandings of what international financial institutions do and why they do it... Kedar draws on newly-available information to present a different view of the IMF as a bureaucracy with its own bureaucratic interests, which do not always coincide with the interests of the U.S. government."" - Contemporary Sociology, May 2014


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Claudia Kedar is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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