When Things Don't Fall Apart

By Ilene Grabel,

Book cover of When Things Don't Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence

Book description

An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis.

In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial crisis had little effect on global financial…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked When Things Don't Fall Apart as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is a welcome antidote to the defeatism that results from a crisis-prone view of the world which is so easy to fall into today.

Grable argues that we should recognize that the rigid models that define a narrow “correct” path to progress are inadequate. Instead, she puts forward the value of what she calls “unscripted” innovations and reminds the reader of the value of “muddling through” and incremental change.

Grable shines a well-deserved light on earlier work by Hirschman and Lindblom. She combines an appreciation of the importance of ideas and the necessity of a high tolerance for…

From Elizabeth's list on why international finance fails to deliver.

Want books like When Things Don't Fall Apart?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 48 books like When Things Don't Fall Apart.

Browse books like When Things Don't Fall Apart

Book cover of The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Book cover of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Book cover of Power: A Radical View

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,187

readers submitted
so far, will you?

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in financial crises, corporate governance, and economics?

Financial Crises 22 books
Economics 411 books