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PublisherZED Books, The Limited
ISBN-10184277073X
ISBN-139781842770733
eBay Product ID (ePID)23038401050
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameUnholy Trinity : the Imf, World Bank and Wto
Publication Year2003
SubjectInternational / Economics, International Relations / Trade & Tariffs, Globalization
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics
AuthorRichard Peet
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.4 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2003-041070
Reviews"...offers a fruitful approach, through sophisticated and clearly articulated arguments in the chapters, to integrating the role of economic ideas with that of material interests in analyzing the international sponsorship of neoliberal globalization." -- ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers "This is a great book." -- David Harvey, City University of New York "Unholy Trinity provides an important history lesson of how the IMF, World Bank, and WTO were twisted from their original mandates to serve the interests of corporate globalization." -- John Cavanagh, co-author of Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible "Seattle, Genoa and Prague have etched the centrality of the IMF, the IBRD and the WTO into our consciousness . Unholy Trinity charts the contours and the reach of these global regulatory institutions and how they serve as a fortress for the prevailing neoliberal theory of globalization." -- Michael Watts, University of California "This is a terrific book...It is politically committed, theoretically sophisticated, analytically incisive, empirically rich, thoroughly engaged, and full of devastating one-liners that greatly enliven its reading. The energy of the book is reminiscient of that in a live performance by a group of highly talented musicians...The detail contained in the chapters on the IMF, World Bank, and WTO is highly revealing and an enormous strength of the book. Its framing by a carefully considered and coherently applied way of thinking critically is exemplary, and the innovative way in which the book was produced shows, in all sorts of positive ways, in its content. Resistance necessarily involves collaboration, and this book demonstrates such a maxim extraordinarily well." -- Roger Lee, Economic Geography, 'Seattle, Genoa and Prague have etched the centrality of the IMF, the IBRD and the WTO into our consciousness . Unholy Trinity charts the contours and the reach of these global regulatory institutions and how they serve as a fortress for the prevailing neoliberal theory of globalization.' - Michael Watts, Director, Institute of International Studies, University of California'This is a great book.' - David Harvey, City University of New York'...offers a fruitful approach, through sophisticated and clearly articulated arguemnts in the chapters, to integrating the role of economic ideas with that of material interests in analyzing the international sponsorship of neoliberal globalization.' - ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers'Unholy Trinity provides an important history lesson of how the IMF, World Bank, and WTO were twisted from their original mandates to serve the interests of corporate globalization.' - John Cavanagh, Director, Institute for Policy Studies, and co-author of Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible'This is a terrific book...It is politically committed, theoretically sophisticated, analytically incisive, empirically rich, thoroughly engaged, and full of devastating one-liners that greatly enliven its reading. The energy of the book is reminiscient of that in a live performance by a group of highly talented musicians...The detail contained in the chapters on the IMF, World Bank, and WTO is highly revealing and an enormous strength of the book. Its framing by a carefully considered and coherently applied way of thinking critically is exemplary, and the innovative way in which the book was produced shows, in all sorts of positive ways, in its content. Resistance necessarily involves collaboration, and this book demonstrates such a maxim extrodinarily well.' - Roger Lee, Economic Geography, 'Seattle, Genoa and Prague have etched the centrality of the IMF, the IBRD and the WTO into our consciousness . Unholy Trinity charts the contours and the reach of these global regulatory institutions and how they serve as a fortress for the prevailing neoliberal theory of globalization.'Michael Watts, University of California'This is a great book.'David Harvey, City University of New York'...offers a fruitful approach, through sophisticated and clearly articulated arguemnts in the chapters, to integrating the role of economic ideas with that of material interests in analyzing the international sponsorship of neoliberal globalization.'ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers'Unholy Trinity provides an important history lesson of how the IMF, World Bank, and WTO were twisted from their original mandates to serve the interests of corporate globalization.'John Cavanagh, co-author of Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible'This is a terrific book...It is politically committed, theoretically sophisticated, analytically incisive, empirically rich, thoroughly engaged, and full of devastating one-liners that greatly enliven its reading. The energy of the book is reminiscient of that in a live performance by a group of highly talented musicians...The detail contained in the chapters on the IMF, World Bank, and WTO is highly revealing and an enormous strength of the book. Its framing by a carefully considered and coherently applied way of thinking critically is exemplary, and the innovative way in which the book was produced shows, in all sorts of positive ways, in its content. Resistance necessarily involves collaboration, and this book demonstrates such a maxim extrodinarily well.'Roger Lee, Economic Geography, "Seattle, Genoa and Prague have etched the centrality of the IMF, the IBRD and the WTO into our consciousness . This book charts the contours and the reach of these global regulatory institutions and how they serve as a fortress for the prevailing neoliberal theory of globalization."--Michael Watts, Director, Institute of International Studies, University of California "This is a great book."--David Harvey, City University of New York ". . . provides an important history lesson of how the IMF, World Bank, and WTO were twisted from their original mandates to serve the interests of corporate globalization."--John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal337
Table Of Content1. Globalism and Neoliberalism 2. Bretton Woods: Emergence of a Global Economic Regime 3. The International Monetary Fund 4. The World Bank 5. The World Trade Organization (WTO) 6. The Washington-Wall Street Alliance
SynopsisOur lives are all affected by three hugely powerful and well financed, but undemocratic, organizations: the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. These institutions share, with minor differences, a common ideology. They aggressively promote a very particular kind of 'corporate' capitalism, neoliberalism, giving free rein across the world to the interests of a small number of huge, undemocratic and largely unregulated transnational corporations. This book presents the history and fundamental ideas of this economic ideology. Describing each member of the 'unholy trinity', it shows how neoliberalism hijacked the IMF, World Bank and WTO in relation to their global financial, development and trade management roles. Instead of their original clearly defined, circumscribed and even benign responsibilities, they have now become the financial policemen of a global economy characterized by mounting extremes of rich and poor and recurrent instability. The story of the mounting opposition to these 'Bretton Woods' institutions is told. And the book concludes with a trenchant review of the various ideas now being canvassed not simply for their radical reform, but for alternative principles that might guide a very different form of globalization., Our lives are all affected by three hugely powerful and well financed, but undemocratic, organizations: the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. These institutions share, with minor differences, a common ideology. They aggressively promote a very particular kind of 'corporate' capitalism, neoliberalism, giving free rein across the world to the interests of a small number of huge, undemocratic and largely unregulated transnational corporations.This book presents the history and fundamental ideas of this economic ideology. Describing each member of the 'unholy trinity', it shows how neoliberalism hijacked the IMF, World Bank and WTO in relation to their global financial, development and trade management roles. Instead of their original clearly defined, circumscribed and even benign responsibilities, they have now become the financial policemen of a global economy characterized by mounting extremes of rich and poor and recurrent instability.The story of the mounting opposition to these 'Bretton Woods' institutions is told. And the book concludes with a trenchant review of the various ideas now being canvassed not simply for their radical reform, but for alternative principles that might guide a very different form of globalization., and WTO were twisted from their original mandates to serve the interests of corporate globalization.' - John Cavanagh
LC Classification NumberHG3881.5.I58U537
