ABSTRACT
First, people seek to situate the changes the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is going through within an explanatory theoretical framework. This positive reform has the potential to enhance the IMF's cognitive authority over economic policy knowledge. People point here is to emphasize that the IMF's cognitive authority over economic policy knowledge will be strengthened by the reform of surveillance, permitting the formal integration and public dissemination of long-established in-house practices. Their research on the Joint Vienna Institute suggests that IMF training is important for inculcating a particular language of economic policy choices among national officials, as well as forming part of an ongoing cycle of socialization to encourage them to agree on common standards and benchmarks for economic management. People conclude this brief commentary with some basic suggestions for avenues of future research on the evolving role of international organization (IOs) in the global political economy.
