Faith And Credit

The World Bank's Secular Empire

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

1994
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-024101-3 (ISBN)

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The World Bank is an immensely powerful institution. This book looks at the World Bank, ranging from personal criticism of the central players to a more reflective discussion of the blind faith characteristic of development economics based on the idea of perpetual growth.

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.

In the beginning; the other ancestor; structural salvation; the savage mind; false prophecies; the fundamentalist freedom fighter; l'esprit de corps; the Namland coup; governance - the last refuge?; the environmental battlefield; interlude - the clans; intellectual leadership and the H street heretics; ruling the realm; the bank perceived - images and self-images; interlude - Dr Gott's formula. Conclusion - "The thing". Thanks.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.9.1994
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 198 mm
Gewicht	209 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-14-024101-9 / 0140241019
ISBN-13	978-0-14-024101-3 / 9780140241013
Zustand	Neuware