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The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

Ben Clift
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The article was published on 2018-02-14 and is currently open access. It has received 55 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Austerity & Financial crisis.

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Understanding Technological Change in Global Finance through Infrastructures

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that tracing the ways in which infrastructures enabling financial markets to operate are assembled out of multiple old and new socio-technical devices offers productive avenues for addressing key questions arising from several entanglements underpinning technological change.
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The professional politics of the austerity debate: A comparative field analysis of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of content, network and regression analysis was used to uncover the role of role different qualifications, experiences and hierarchies in shaping the expertise invoked by the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund's main policy documents.
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Financial globalization as positive integration: monetary technocrats and the Eurodollar market in the 1970s

TL;DR: In this article, international political economy (IPE) has explained financial globalization as the result of states deciding to open up and liberalize domestic financial systems, and the negative integ...
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How did the Washington consensus move within the IMF? Fragmented change from the 1980s to the aftermath of the 2008 crisis

TL;DR: A detailed, diachronic analysis of how the Washington Consensus evolved within one decade is given in this paper, with a focus on the first decade of the 20th century.
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The battle of ideas on the euro crisis: evidence from ECB inter-meeting speeches

TL;DR: The European Central Bank (ECB) has often been portrayed as highly resistant to ideational change as mentioned in this paper, and a battle of ideas dominated the academic debate on the euro currency.