Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund, 1979-89 - James M. Boughton - Google Books

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This volume, fourth in a series of periodic histories of the institution, is as much a history of the world economy during 1979-89 as one of the IMF itself. Boughton discusses the IMF’s surveillance of the international monetary system in the 1980s; the…