Globalization, the IMF, and International Banks in Argentina: The Model Economic Crisis

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Globalization, the IMF, and International Banks in Argentina: The Model Economic Crisis examines the meaning of mainstream globalization and how it relates to neoliberalism as policymakers, international institutions, and mainstream press combat attempts to economically and politically de-globalize. Christian Hernandez investigates how the logistics and policies of mainstream globalism have failed both the international institutions who promote it and the states they serve. Hernandez examines the case of Argentina as a microcosm of economic and financial distress that has now spread to the United States and Europe. The contents of this book interrogate the space for alternatives to globalizations logics by focusing on the ways that ideas shape policy and normative understanding by examining the IMF-Argentine debt negotiations and the discourses of the financial press surrounding the Argentine Great Depression. Scholars of economics, Latin American studies, and political science will find this book particularly useful.

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A startlingly original, thoroughly researched, and very important book that really helps us understand the continuing ideational and institutional power that neoliberalism draws from the discourse of globalization. -- Colin Hay, Sciences Po, Paris

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Christian Hernandez holds a PhD in political economy from the University of Birmingham.