Faith And Credit: The World Bank's Secular Empire

by Susan George

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367010225
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/18/2019
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susan George is associate director of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. She is the author of How the Other Half Dies , A Fate Worse Than Debt , Ill Fares the Land , and The Debt Boomerang . She works with a number of nongovernmental organizations and serves on the boards of Greenpeace International and Greenpeace France. Fabrizio Sabelli is professor at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Geneva and the University Neuchatel. He has authored and coauthored several books, most recently La Mythologie Programm233e and Recherche Anthropologique et D233veloppement.

Table of Contents

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