Invested interests : capital, culture, and the World Bank /

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In Invested Interests, Bret Benjamin contends that the World Bank has, from its inception, trafficked in culture. From the political context in which the Bank was chartered to its evolution into an interventionist development agency with vast, unchecked powers, Benjamin explores the Banks central ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Benjamin, Bret
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
World Bank > History.
World Bank > Influence.
World Bank > Social aspects.
World Bank
Economic assistance.
Globalization.
Aide économique.
Mondialisation.
assistance.
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Banks & Banking.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
Economic assistance
Globalization
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Social aspects
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Accounting for culture
  • Imaginative ventures : cultivating confidence at Bretton Woods
  • Imperial burden : selling development to Wall Street
  • Uncomfortable intimacies : managing third world nationalisms
  • Culture underwritten : radical critique and the bank's cultural turn
  • Success stories : NGOs and the banking Bildungsroman
  • Literary movements : impossible collectivities in The god of small things
  • Minimum agendas : the world social forum and the place of culture.

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