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Lauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the series of economic crises that rocked the globe in the last decade. Based on hundreds of interviews with officials at the IMF, the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the White House, and many foreign governments, The Chastening offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Fund during an extraordinarily turbulent period in modern economic history and at a time when the IMF has become the object of intense political controversy. While the IMF and its overseers at the Treasury and the Fed have sought to cultivate an image of economic masterminds coolly dispensing effective economic remedies, the reality is that as markets were sinking and defaults looming, the guardians of global financial stability were often floundering, improvising, and feuding among themselves. The Chastening casts serious doubt on the IMF's ability to combat of investor panics at a time when massive flows of money traverse borders and oceans. A readable, compelling account of the deeply flawed workings of the international political system, The Chastening is vital reading for students and scholars of international diplomacy, government, and economic and public policy. (Währungs- und Wirtschaftskrien in Brasilien, Indonesien, Mexiko, Süd Korea, Rußland, Thailand, Asienkrise)

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"[...] Paul Blustein, a staff business and finance writer at the Washington Post, has managed to craft a readable and often gripping book about—of all things—world finance. He interviewed nearly two hundred people connected with finance, many of them current or former employees of the IMF, and also top officials in the United States Treasury Department. He traveled for sixteen months to nearly every major player in the world’s economy to get first hand answers to tough questions and what really happened behind those closed-doors while the world’s economy was shrinking away.

Although Blustein’s accounts of the various wheeling and dealings and behind closed-door strategies can get dizzying as foreign names and eleven-digit figures are tossed around, he manages to juggle them efficiently enough to keep you jaunting merrily along. When you read about how close the United States itself came to falling victim to the Electronic Herd, to tail spinning into financial oblivion, at how perilous the collapse really was, it can send chills along your spine." Quelle: D. R. Peak., popmatters.com