The 1976 IMF crisis was a seminal event in modern British political and economic history. This study, based on vital original source material, including interviews with leading actors, probes economic thought and practice by governments and questions much received wisdom, especially that the effect of...
it was the IMF agreement that caused 'the immediate turn-around in the flow of funds'.5 Furthermore, even though the crisis was 'less traumatic', it was 'the most difficult economic and political baptism of any postwar British administration except that of Attlee'.6 As market forces demanded...
Harmon, M. (1997) The British Labour Government and the 1976 imf Crisis (Macmillan).HARMON Mark, The British Labour Government and the 1976 IMF Crisis, Londres, Macmillan, 1997,Mark Harmon, The British Labour Government and the 1976 IMF Crisis (London: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 55-8....
Decline to Fall: The Making of British Macro-economic Policy and the 1976 IMF Crisis This book provides the first comprehensive and authoritative account of the events leading up to the UK seeking a massive loan from the IMF in 1976 which a......
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The previous two chapters have shown how British economic policymaking elites established ownership of their IMF program well in advance of a moment of acute economic crisis and independently of any intervention from the Fund. Of particular significance in this expression of economic strategy was the ...
The politics of economic policy making in Britain : a re-assessment of the 1976 IMF crisis Many accounts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) crisis argue that British policy was determined by the exercise of structural power by markets, either through the creation of currency instability and...
I show that preferences over safe assets (POSA), calibrated by targeting estimates of the wedge between household discount and market interest rates and th
The court is likely to hear sleazy details about the dark side of the man who once jetted around the world steering the IMF through the global financial crisis. He admits he took part in group sex but denies knowing that the women at the parties were prostitutes. ...
The Global Financial Crisis: The Role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) This report discusses two potential roles the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have in helping to resolve the current global financial crisis: (1) imm... MA Weiss - 《Current Politics & Economics of Europe》 ...