Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies, and the Threat to the Developing WorldContends that the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO, want to see all nations developing into modern industrial societies. Argues that, nevertheless, their simplistic free-market ideology and faulty understanding of history leads them to inflict policy errors on others. Considers issues of trade and foreign investment, privatization and State involvement, prejudices about national cultures and political ideologies, etc. |
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The Lexus and the olive tree revisited | 19 |
The double life of Daniel Defoe | 40 |
My sixyearold son should get a job | 65 |
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