by David Rothkopf
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008 376 pp $26
Bad Samaritans
by Ha-Joon Chang
Bloomsbury Press, 2008 276 pp $26.95
How to Rule the World
by Mark Engler
Nation Books, 2008 362 pp $16.95
THIS OCTOBER, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings came to Washington, and, as they do every year, an impassioned bunch of activists mounted protests, decrying the neoliberal agenda that has deregulated markets, pitted worker against worker, and devastated local communities and the environment.
The difference this time around was that, in the wake of the most significant financial meltdown of our times, the bankers were echoing the protestors’ calls for re-regulation. Indeed, as the number of people protesting the global institutions has shrunk since September 11, 2001, the mainstream acceptance of their basic criti...
» Want to continue? Login below:
