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 annive
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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.
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Introduction and Basics -- In the Beginning -- The Other Ancestor -- Structural Salvation -- Interlude -- False Prophecies -- The Fundamentalist Freedom Fighter -- L’Esprit de Corps -- Interlude -- Governance: The Last Refuge? -- The Environmental Battlefield -- Interlude -- Intellectual Leadership and the H Street Heretics -- Ruling the Realm -- The Bank Perceived: Images and Self-Images -- Interlude -- Conclusion
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ISBN
9780367010225
Publisert
2019-04-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
133 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
288

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