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Ben Clift's new book on the IMF, - The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis, published by Oxford University Press, explores how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) used its resources and reputation to shape economic policy in response to the biggest financial crash since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The book is featured in a new SPERI blog by Tony Payne - http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2018/04/23/understanding-the-imf-better/

The book presents the first analysis of the role played by the IMF in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, and identifies some of the strategies used by the IMF to influence thinking about what is, and what is not, ‘sound’ economic policy.