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Efficiency and Legitimacy; Trade-Offs in IMF Governance
Cottarelli, Carlo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Designing appropriate governance structures for an international financial institution such as the IMF is difficult …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825916
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American in the Shadows; Harry Dexter White and the Design of the International Monetary Fund
Boughton, James M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Two economists designed the main features of the charter of the IMF during World War II: John Maynard Keynes and Harry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768807
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Why White, Not Keynes? Inventing the Post-War International Monetary System
Boughton, James M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
The international monetary system is largely the product of negotiations during World War II between U.S. and U.K. officials, led respectively by Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes. The design of the system, especially the International Monetary Fund, reflects the U.S. plan much more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604817
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The IMF and the force of History; Ten Events and Ten Ideas that Have Shaped the Institution
Boughton, James M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
shaped by their economics training and their nationalities. After the IMF began functioning as an institution, its evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604900
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The Two Monetary Approaches to the Balance of Payments; Keynesian and Johnsonian
Polak, J. J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
the IMF, the other under the leadership of Harry Johnson in Chicago. The IMF approach is presented as an evolutionary …-proclaimed revolutionary. It posits the ‘essentially monetary character’ of the balance of payments. The IMF model tests satisfactorily as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605086