one good book that does some good intro and explanatory work is stephen gill and david law's "the global political economy." it has some good pages on international money and finance (ch. 10). (oh, johns hopkins, 1988). it's pretty readable. (it doesn't a close political genealogy of the imf and the world bank, although it does talk about how they have and do work).
bonehead question: when the imf "bails out" an economy like indonesia's, does it lend money at the pre-crisis exchange rate? or is there a rate fixed at all?
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