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Toward a Pluripolar Global Financial Architecture? The Bretton Woods Institutions and the New Landscape of Developmental Finance

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I advance three claims in the paper. First, the Asian and especially the global financial crisis occasioned discontinuities and continuities that are imparting incoherence to the global financial governance architecture and developmental finance. Second, the emergent incoherence is productive of development rather than debilitating. Third, productive incoherence can be understood most fully within a “Hirschmanian mindset,†that is, an understanding of social and regime change informed by Albert O. Hirschman’s key theoretical and epistemic commitments.

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  • Ilene Grabel, 2018. "Toward a Pluripolar Global Financial Architecture? The Bretton Woods Institutions and the New Landscape of Developmental Finance," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 50(4), pages 653-659, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:50:y:2018:i:4:p:653-659
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613418761894
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    Keywords

    global financial architecture; Bretton Woods institutions; developmental finance; Albert O. Hirschman;
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    JEL classification:

    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
    • F55 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Institutional Arrangements
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General

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