Can the IMF Be Trusted on Argentina?
21 February 2020 by Eric Toussaint
After the IMF mission to Argentina agreed with President Fernandez that the foreign debt is unsustainable, international debt campaigner Eric Toussaint tells teleSUR that the Fund is not to be trusted.
Source : Telesur
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
Other articles in English by Eric Toussaint (608)
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 4)
The 1970s: Liberal ideology returned with a vengeance25 June 2009, by Eric Toussaint
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 3)
The 1930s to the 1970s: liberalism eclipsed Eric Toussaint19 June 2009, by Eric Toussaint
A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 2)
Neo-liberal ideology is a hard nut to crack13 June 2009, by Eric Toussaint
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 1)
Adam Smith is closer to Karl Marx than those showering praise on Smith today12 June 2009, by Eric Toussaint
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Let us act to eradicate capitalism and all forms of oppression8 June 2009, by Eric Toussaint , Damien Millet
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Ecuador at the crossroads
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The doublespeak of a discredited IMF
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