Paul Blustein.
The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF.
New York: PublicAffairs / Perseus Books Group, 2001; paperback reprint 2003.
Book information: Publisher, PublicAffairs; Publisher, Perseus Books Group; Google Books; Amazon.com; C-SPAN Video, 24 Sept 2001.
1997 Asian financial crisis, Wikipedia.
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Long-Term Capital Management, Wikipedia.
Samba effect (Brazil 1999), Wikipedia.
International Monetary Fund, Wikipedia.
International Monetary Fund.
Blustein has also written a book on the role of the IMF in the Argentine economic crisis of 1999-2002:
And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina. New York: PublicAffairs / Perseus Books Group, 2005.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002). Wikipedia.