Faith And Credit: The World Bank's Secular Empire - Couverture souple

George, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140241019 ISBN 13 : 9780140241013

Editeur : Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

The authors compare the ideologies of the free-market with religious faith, giving the World Bank the role of a secular church setting out to convert the world's underdeveloped economies to the consumer capitalist way, and so to create an enormous secular empire. This book is published in September 1994 to coincide with the World Bank's 50th anniversary. Susan George is the author of "Ill Fares the Land", "How the Other Half Dies", "A Fate Worse than Debt" - winner of the 1988 US World Hunger Media Awards and French UNICEF Committee Prize 1989.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In its fifty years of existence, the World Bank has influenced more lives in the Third World than any other institution, yet it remains largely unknown, even enigmatic. Although it claims to be a purely economic institution, the Bank wields enormous political power and has succeeded in making its own view of development appear to be the norm.In this richly illuminating and lively overview, Susan George and Fabrizio Sabelli examine the Bank's policies, its internal culture, and the interests it serves. They reveal a supranational, nondemocratic, and extremely powerful institution that functions much like the medieval church or a monolithic political party, relying on rigid doctrine, hierarchy, and a rejection of dissenting ideas to perpetuate its influence. Its faith in orthodox economics, the idea of perpetual growth, and the capacity of the market to solve development problems is incompatible with its professed goals of helping the poor and protecting the environment. Faced with these contradictions, the Bank is increasingly struggling to reconcile the roles of commercial lender, policymaker, and great humanitarian. This book is crucial reading for anyone interested in development and economy of the Third World, especially for international, political, and development economists.

Biographie de l'auteur

Susan George is associate director of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. She is the author of How the Other Half Dies , A Fate Worse Than Debt , Ill Fares the Land , and The Debt Boomerang . She works with a number of nongovernmental organizations and serves on the boards of Greenpeace International and Greenpeace France. Fabrizio Sabelli is professor at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Geneva and the University Neuchatel. He has authored and coauthored several books, most recently La Mythologie Programm233e and Recherche Anthropologique et D233veloppement.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140241019
• ISBN 13: 9780140241013
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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