Notes
1. Themes of analysis are monetary inflation, rational expectations, supply-side economics, and public choice theory.
2. Not before a political agreement between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill though.
3. In addition, annual consultations with member states became routine.
4. Rusmich studied in Moscow and had a first hand knowledge of this system for having participating for several years to the activity of the COMECON.
5. Professor Ota Sik passed away during the summer 2004.
6. Reynolds states that the sharing mission of these two agencies is “predicated on the assumption that short-tem adjustment takes priority over the needs of long-term development, so the World Bank will not lend until an IMF scheme is in place” (Reynolds, 2003, p. 108).