Winner of the 2021 International Studies Association International Political Economy Section Best Book Award.

Winner of the 2020 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. 

• The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises, with Andrew Walter.  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).  

Chwieroth gives us an in-depth and fair account of what the staff of the International Monetary Fund came to believe about freedom of capital flows and, more importantly, why the IMF holds those beliefs and how its views have evolved over the past six decades. Capital Ideas will be a valuable source for researchers studying one of the key economic policy issues of our time.

James M. Boughton, author of Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund, 1979-1989

This is a fascinating and important book that every student of the International Monetary Fund should read and absorb. Chwieroth buttresses his argument with impressive interview and archival research and poses a serious challenge to previous scholarship about the liberalization of global finance.

Randall Stone, University of Rochester

• Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).