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The IMF—A Reading List
Posted By Ian Vasquez On May 20, 2011 @ 5:08 pm In Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy,International Economics and Development | Comments Disabled
Now that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund, the debate has turned to who will lead the lending agency as it goes through its usual non-transparent and politicized selection process. (Of course, virtually all decisions at the IMF are politicized since it is primarily a political institution, a club in which rich countries’ governments with diverse interests and political priorities typically lend money to governments with track records of mismanaging their economies.)
The IMF is a fundamentally flawed institution, a problem independent of whether the new Fund chief is French or South African. Here’s a brief reading list for anybody more interested in the scandal of IMF lending than of the scandals of IMF personalities.
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[1] Cato Handbook essay: http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb109/hb_109-66.pdf
[2] “The IMF’s Imprudent Role as Lender of Last Resort,”: http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj17n3-11.html
[3] Cato study: http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb54.pdf
[4] “International Financial Crises: Myths and Realities,”: http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj17n3-3.html
[5] Here: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11722
[6] “Asian Problems and the IMF,”: http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj17n3-10.html
[7] Here: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1599
[8] study: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10331
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