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Author Pauly, Louis W., author

Title Who Elected the Bankers? : Surveillance and Control in the World Economy / Louis W. Pauly
Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (200 pages)
Series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Cornell studies in political economy.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Global Markets and National Politics -- CHAPTER 2. The Political Economy of International Capital Mobility -- CHAPTER 3. The League of Nations and the Roots of Multilateral Oversight -- CHAPTER 4. The Transformation of Economic Oversight in the League -- CHAPTER 5. Global Aspirations and the Early International Monetary Fund -- CHAPTER 6. The Reinvention of Multilateral Economic Surveillance -- CHAPTER 7. The Political Foundations of Global Markets -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary A former banker and staff member of the International Monetary Fund, Louis W. Pauly explains why people are deeply concerned about the emergence of a global economy and the increasingly integrated capital markets at its heart. In nations as diverse as France, Canada, Russia, and Mexico, the lives of citizens are disrupted when national policy falls out of line with the expectations of international financiers. Such dilemmas, ever more conspicuous around the world, arise from the disjuncture between a rapidly changing international economic system and a political order still constituted by sovereign states. The evolution of global capital markets inspires an understandable fear among people that the governing authorities accountable to them are losing the power to make substantive decisions affecting their own material prospects and those of their children. Pauly points out that today's capital markets resulted from decisions taken over many years by sovereign states, and particularly by the leading industrial democracies, who simultaneously crafted the instrument of multilateral economic surveillance. The effort to build adequate political foundations for global capital markets spans the twentieth century and links the histories of such institutions as the League of Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, and the Group of Seven
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-177) and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
SUBJECT Fonds monétaire international -- Histoire -- 20m̀e siècle. ram
Société des Nations -- Histoire -- 20ème siècle. ram
Subject Financial institutions, International -- History -- 20th century
International Monetary Fund -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Economy.
Financial institutions, International
Geldpolitik
Internationale Kapitalbewegung
Internationale Kooperation
Internationaler Kapitalmarkt
Internationaler Kreditmarkt
Souveränität
IMF.
Institutions financières internationales -- Histoire -- 20ème siècle.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501732294
1501732293