Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He is author of Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism (Palgrave, 2014), French Socialism in a Global Era (Continuum, 2003), and co-editor of Economic Patriotism: Political Intervention in Open Markets (Routledge, 2012) and Where Are National Capitalisms Now? (Palgrave 2004). He has published widely on the politics of economic ideas, the IMF, French and comparative capitalisms, the political economy of social democracy, and French and British politics in journals including British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy.

That economic ideas are the currency of power in the corridors of the IMF is well known. But how these ideas are developed, shared, and spread is largely assumed. Ben Clift's excellent book changes that. By leveraging constructivist insights on how actors frame problems to a framework that stresses processes of ideational reconciliation and recognition within the fund, Clift shows the IMF to be more ideationally pluralist, and yet more political, than most analysts have shown to date.

• 1: The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis 2: Ideational Change at the IMF after the Crash 3: IMF, Economic Schools of Thought, and Their Normative Underpinnings 4: Analysing the IMF Surveillance of Advanced Economies: The Social Construction of Fiscal Space 5: The Fund's Fiscal Policy Views and the Politics of Austerity 6: The IMF, the UK Policy Debate, and Debt & Deficit Discourse 7: The IMF and the French Fiscal Rectitude amidst the Eurozone Crisis Conclusion - IMF Intellectual Authority and the Politics of Economic Ideas After the Crash

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He is author of Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism (Palgrave, 2014), French Socialism in a Global Era (Continuum, 2003), and co-editor of Economic Patriotism: Political Intervention in Open Markets (Routledge, 2012) and Where Are National Capitalisms Now? (Palgrave 2004). He has published widely on the politics of economic ideas, the IMF, French and comparative capitalisms, the political economy of social democracy, and French and British politics in journals including British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy.

That economic ideas are the currency of power in the corridors of the IMF is well known. But how these ideas are developed, shared, and spread is largely assumed. Ben Clift's excellent book changes that. By leveraging constructivist insights on how actors frame problems to a framework that stresses processes of ideational reconciliation and recognition within the fund, Clift shows the IMF to be more ideationally pluralist, and yet more political, than most analysts have shown to date.

• 1: The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis 2: Ideational Change at the IMF after the Crash 3: IMF, Economic Schools of Thought, and Their Normative Underpinnings 4: Analysing the IMF Surveillance of Advanced Economies: The Social Construction of Fiscal Space 5: The Fund's Fiscal Policy Views and the Politics of Austerity 6: The IMF, the UK Policy Debate, and Debt & Deficit Discourse 7: The IMF and the French Fiscal Rectitude amidst the Eurozone Crisis Conclusion - IMF Intellectual Authority and the Politics of Economic Ideas After the Crash

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He is author of Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism (Palgrave, 2014), French Socialism in a Global Era (Continuum, 2003), and co-editor of Economic Patriotism: Political Intervention in Open Markets (Routledge, 2012) and Where Are National Capitalisms Now? (Palgrave 2004). He has published widely on the politics of economic ideas, the IMF, French and comparative capitalisms, the political economy of social democracy, and French and British politics in journals including British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy.

That economic ideas are the currency of power in the corridors of the IMF is well known. But how these ideas are developed, shared, and spread is largely assumed. Ben Clift's excellent book changes that. By leveraging constructivist insights on how actors frame problems to a framework that stresses processes of ideational reconciliation and recognition within the fund, Clift shows the IMF to be more ideationally pluralist, and yet more political, than most analysts have shown to date.

• 1: The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis 2: Ideational Change at the IMF after the Crash 3: IMF, Economic Schools of Thought, and Their Normative Underpinnings 4: Analysing the IMF Surveillance of Advanced Economies: The Social Construction of Fiscal Space 5: The Fund's Fiscal Policy Views and the Politics of Austerity 6: The IMF, the UK Policy Debate, and Debt & Deficit Discourse 7: The IMF and the French Fiscal Rectitude amidst the Eurozone Crisis Conclusion - IMF Intellectual Authority and the Politics of Economic Ideas After the Crash