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Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO - Couverture souple

Peet, Richard

 
9781848132528: Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1848132522 ISBN 13 : 9781848132528
Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Who really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it?

The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Globalization massively increased the power of these institutions and they drastically affected the livelihoods of peoples across the world. Yet they operate undemocratically and aggressively promote a particular kind of neoliberal capitalism. Under the 'Washington Consensus' they proposed, poverty was to be ended by increasing inequality.

This new edition of Unholy Trinity, completely updated and revised, argues that neoliberal global capitalism has now entered a period of crisis so severe that governance will become impossible. Huge incomes for a small number of super-rich people produced an unstable global economy, rife with speculation and structurally prone to crises. The IMF is in disgrace, the WTO can hardly meet anymore and the World Bank survives as a global philanthropist. Is this the end for the Unholy Trinity?

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Peet is Professor of Geography at Clark University. He grew up near Liverpool and attended the LSE, the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests include development, policy regimes, globalization, power, social theory, philosophy and Marxism. He was editor of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography for many years. He also co-edited Economic Geography, and is now editor of Human Geography, a new journal. His is the author of twelve books including (with Elaine Hartwick) Theories of Development (2008); (with Michael Watts) Liberation Ecologies (2004) and Geographies of Power (2007).

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Éditeur
Zed Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1848132522
ISBN 13 
9781848132528
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
298
Coordonnées du fabricant
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