In and Against Development: The World Bank Behind the Looking Glass

By Ben Fine

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FMNHDXG5
• ISBN13: 9798888907900
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 366 Pages