Globalization and the Nation State: The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank

by Stephen Kosack, Gustav Ranis, James Vreeland

Overview

This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programmes.

The cutting-edge techniques of the new political economy are thus brought to bear on international issues for the first time. The book includes contributions from leading North American economists - Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris, Ravi Kanbur and Allen Drazen - as well as European-based analysts including Graham Bird and Frances Stewart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415426299
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/26/2007
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	532
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gustav Ranis is Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics andHenry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center of International and Area Studies
James Vreeland is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University.
Stephen Kosack is at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

Table of Contents

1. Whither Conditionality 2. The International and Domestic Politics of IFI Programs 3. Possible Reforms of the IFIs 4. Reflections on the International Infrastructure