... things go well. If things go poorly, the U.S. govern-ment can shift blame either to the IMF or to the crisis country. The IMFhas the further virtue of costing the U.S. taxpayer almost nothing.Once ... the past.CONCLUSIONSo far, the debate about the reform of the international economic archi-tecture in the aftermath of the global financial crisis has gone nowhere,other than a growing consensus ... allow the oligarchs to put moreof their money into foreign bank accounts. In the end, the latter turned outto be the case. Yet the IMF is a hierarchical organization, and the people at the top...