Ebook: When Things Don't Fall Apart Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence

An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis.;Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- I. Crises, Change, and Productive Incoherence -- 1. Introduction: Contesting Continuity -- Purpose of Book -- The Continuity Thesis -- An Alternative Change Framework: Productive Incoherence -- Related Literature, Caveats, and Risks -- Clarification of Terms -- The Book in Brief -- 2. Productive Incoherence: A Hirschmanian Perspective -- A Hirschmanian School of Thought? -- Hirschman's Legacy and Contemporary Development Economics -- Hirschmanian Themes -- Lamentable Evaluative Criteria -- II. Setting the Stage -- 3. The East Asian Financial Crisis and Neoliberalism: The Beginning of the End of a Unified Regime -- The Solidification of Neoliberal Reform -- The IMF in the Aftermath of the Asian Crisis -- Escaping the IMF: The Rise of National Self-Insurance -- The Asian Monetary Fund and the Seeds of Architectural Innovations -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- III. The Global Crisis and Innovations in Financial Governance and Developmental Finance -- 4. Planting Seeds, Bearing Fruit? The Group of 20 and the Financial Stability Board -- Finance Networks -- The G-20: A Brief History -- Financial Stability Board -- Conclusion -- 5. IMF Stewardship of Global Finance -- A Conceptual Note for Economists: Constructivist Accounts of Ambiguity, International Organizations, and Institutional Change -- IMF Identity and Influence -- IMF Governance -- IMF Practice -- Conclusion -- 6. The Changing Institutional Landscape of Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in Emerging Market and Developing Economies -- Crises and Interest in Regional and Transregional Financial Architectures in EMDEs -- Analytical Framework -- A Selective Survey of Architectural Innovations in EMDEs -- Reserve Pooling Institutions and Arrangements -- Development Banks.