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The chastening : inside the crisis that rocked the global financial system and humbled the IMF / Paul Blustein.
Lippincott Library HB3808 .B58 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blustein, Paul
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Financial crises--Asia.
- Financial crises.
- Asia.
- International finance.
- International Monetary Fund--Asia--Economic assistance.
- International Monetary Fund.
- Economic assistance.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 431 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, [2001]
- Summary:
- A staff writer at "The Washington Post" presents 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.
- Contents:
- 1 The Committee to Save the World 1
- 2 Opening the Spigot 19
- 3 Winnie the Pooh and the Big Secret 51
- 4 Malignancy 85
- 5 Sleepless in Seoul 117
- 6 The Naysayers 151
- 7 The Bosun's Mate 175
- 8 Down the Tubes 207
- 9 Getting to Nyet 235
- 10 The Balance of Risks 279
- 11 Plumbing the Depths 305
- 12 Stumbling Out 337
- 13 Cooling Off 371.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1891620819
- OCLC:
- 47136723
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