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The IMF, the eurozone and global financial crises, and the politics of economic ideas

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The author is very grateful for the support of the Leverhulme Trust for the research fellowship funding (RF-2012-340) entitled ‘It’s Mostly Fiscal - The IMF, Evolving Fiscal Policy Doctrine and The Crisis’ which enabled the research for this article, and the monograph The IMF and the Politics of Austerity, to be undertaken.

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Clift, B. The IMF, the eurozone and global financial crises, and the politics of economic ideas. Comp Eur Polit 18, 99–108 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-018-0146-x

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