In this paper, I argue that critical international theory could benefit from a broader and
deeper conception of the limits of knowledge—that what is needed is more attention to the …

This paper examines how the staff exercise informal governance over lending decisions of
the International Monetary Fund (IMF or Fund). The essential component of designing any …

After the great financial crisis of 2007–2009, central banks were handed a macroprudential
mandate to contain systemic risks, a mandate seen as endangering their independence due …

Following the financial crash of 2008, many scholars have highlighted flaws and
inadequacies in emerging macroprudential regulatory regimes. A missing ingredient in the …

With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is
increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the …

Over the past century, the rise and fall of economic policy orders has been shaped by a
paradox, as intellectual and institutional stability have repeatedly caused market instability …

In the 1950s–1970s inward foreign direct investments (IFDI) were widely seen as a menace,
threatening to undermine national economic development. Two decades later such …

Abstract Belying the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) reputation as a bastion of neo-
liberal policy orthodoxy, this article analyses important yet contingent transformations in IMF …

We argue that the IPE literature on economic expertise has been characterised by
'methodological elitism'that makes it ill equipped to account for the influence of heterodox …

Macroprudential regulation is a set of economic and policy tools that aim to mitigate risk in
the financial and banking systems. It was largely developed in response to the financial …