Fighting financial fires
Subtitle: an IMF insider account
By: Onno de Beaufort Wijnholds
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780230292673
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions; Financial crises; International Monetary Fund; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance; History
Description: "A topical insider view of causes and consequences of financial crises since the Mexican collapse of 1995. The book includes a detailed exploration of recent and ongoing firestorms, including the near meltdown of the global financial system and the euro crisis, and suggests ways to save the international financial and monetary system"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Prologue; title: Tequila and Tesobonos: Mexico 1994-95; title: From Miracle to Panic and Back: Asia 1997-98; title: Korea's Christmas Crisis; title: Indonesia with Nukes: Russia 1998; title: Double Bailout for Brazil; title: The IMF Fails: The Argentine Drama; title: Turkey Stumbles; title: Lessons Learned, Not Learned and Ignored; title: A Global Firestorm; title: Europe's Turn; title: Saving the System; title: Epilogue.