1. See Harold James, International Monetary Cooperation Since Breton Woods (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), for a history of the international monetary system
2. A. F. P. Bakker, International Financial Institutions (London: Addison Wesley, 1996), for a survey of multilateral financial institutions.
3. Barry Eichengreen discusses many of the proposals that have been offered in the wake of the Asian crisis to reform the international financial institutions in Toward a New International Financial Architecture (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1999).
4. The experiences of commercial lenders in trying to organize their own conditionality in the case of Peru in 1976 are nicely summarized in Dani Rodrik, “Why is there Multilateral Lending?” in Michael Bruno and Boris Pleskovic, eds., Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1995 ( Washington, D.C.: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1996 ), pp. 167–93.
5. See, for example, Roland Vaubel’s use of the public choice approach in “The Political Economy of the International Monetary Fund: A Public Choice Analysis,” in Roland Vaubel and Thomas D. Wilett, eds., The Political Economy of International Organizations ( Boulder: Westview, 1991 ), pp. 204–44.