The second of two volumes written “in and against development” meticulously criticizes the World Bank’s scholarship and assesses alternative approaches to development studies.
Long self-proclaimed as “Knowledge Bank”, the World Bank is as active as criticized in its endeavors across scholarship, ideology and policy in practice, serving US interests in the age of globalization, neoliberalism and financialization. Its analytical framing draws upon economics imperialism in general, and its evolution through three phases. Corresponding phases of new, newer and newest development economics are identified, with the World Bank taking a leading role in each, with implications for the expanding scope of development economics and its contestations with development studies.
Other books by Ben Fine
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In and against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics
by Ben Fine -
The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism
by Ben Fine -
The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies
by Ben Fine -
From Value to Uneven Development
by John Weeks -
Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism: Across the Watershed
by Ben Fine