Off Balance
Subtitle: The Travails of Institutions That Govern the Global Financial System
Publisher: Centre for International Governance Innovation, The
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780986707766
Subjects: Financial crises; International monetary fund
Description: "Award-winning journalist and author Paul Blustein has received wide acclaim for his books about the inner workings of international economic institutions, notably the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization. In [this book], he weaves a compelling narrative that details the failings of such institutions in the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008. Based on interviews with scores of policy makers and on thousands of pages of confidential documents to which Blustein obtained exclusive access, the book focusses mainly on the IMF and the Financial Stability Forum in the run-up to and early months of the crisis. Blustein exposes serious weaknesses in these and other institutions, which lead to sobering conclusions about the governability of the global economy."--Page [4] of cover.