The Chastening : Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The Imf.
Title:
The Chastening : Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The Imf.
Author:
Blustein, Paul.
ISBN:
9780786724697
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (318 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Author's Note and Acknowledgments -- · 1 · The Committee to Save the World -- · 2 · Opening the Spigot -- · 3 · Winnie the Pooh and the Big Secret -- · 4 · Malignancy -- · 5 · Sleepless in Seoul -- · 6 · The Naysayers -- · 7 · The Bosun's Mate -- · 8 · Down the Tubes -- · 9 · Getting to Nyet -- · 10 · The Balanceof Risks -- · 11 · Plumbing the Depths -- · 12 · Stumbling Out -- · 13 · Cooling Off -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
The breathtaking behind-the-scenes story of the nearly disastrous global financial crisis of the late 1990s and how the International Monetary Fund tried--and failed--to stem it.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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