The World Bank (eBook)

A Critical History

Eric Toussaint (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
432 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4830-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Superior A broad-ranging guide that explains the global power structure over the last eight decadesCarlos Marichal, El Colegio de MxicoCovering the history of the Bank from its early days as a prop to European colonialism through the Rwandan genocide, the Washington Consensus and the Iraq war, Toussaint argues that the Bank is incorrigible and should be abolished. Read and judge for yourselvesJames K. Galbraith, author,Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of EuropeInvites fresh thinking on the need to streamline human rights considerations into lending. Recommended readingAndrs Solimano, founder, International Center for Globalization and DevelopmentIn 1944, the Bretton Woods Conference ushered in a new international economic order. The World Bank emerged as one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world, and a new colonial authority in all but name. But how does it operate, who funds it, and what agenda does it work to promote?InThe World Bank: A Critical History, ric Toussaint answers all of these questions and more. Offering up a highly readable yet uniquely authoritative account, the book analyses the Bank from its beginnings to the present day. Chapters on gender, climate and the pandemic era provide the reader with a truly contemporary, definitive text.Seven international case studies illustrate the impact of World Bank policy, and Toussaint also explores the political, economic and strategic motives of the US government with regard to the World Bank. The book concludes with a proposal for replacing the World Bank, IMF and WTO with new, multilateral and democratic institutions.ric Toussaintis a historian and political scientist. He is spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt, of which he is one of the founding members. He is the author or co-author of numerous books includingBankocracy,The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man, andDebt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2023
• Vorwort: Gilbert Achcar
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Abolishing the World Bank and IMF • Arab Spring 2011 • Bretton Woods Conference 1944 • Bretton Woods Institutions • CADTM • Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt • Critical history of the World Bank • Debt Crisis • Foreign Debt • gold standard • IMF • International Monetary Fund • Marshall Plan • Neoliberalism • Structural adjustment • Washington Consensus • World Bank • World economic order
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4830-0 / 0745348300
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4830-8 / 9780745348308