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"A brief history of neoliberalism" af David Harvey - den er på engelsk, men til gengæld ikke tyk :)

Det er en virkelig go bog der i et letforståeligt sprog giver en indføring i nyliberalistisk teori og nyliberalismens konkrete udtryk...

her er et link:
http://bibliotek.dk/vis.php?origin=sogn … term_sprog[

Frisk skrev:

General Jack Ripper skrev:

Naomi Klein:"Chock-doktrinen"? Noam Chomsky har selvfølgelig også skrevet en bunke af den slags kritik. Det afhænger selvfølgelig af, hvor sekterisk dine kilder skal være.Det er selvfølgelig heller ikke fordi WTO på nogen måde lægger skjul på deres doktrin, så det er egentligt bare et spørgsmål om at lave en kritisk analyse af, hvad de selv skriver..

Den har jeg læst:) Det var mere for at komme ud over "det sædvanlige" eller hvad man skal sige...

Aha, så pakker jeg bare sammen. :-)

Introduktionstekst fra det uundværlige Bretton Woods Project (en tænketank af progressive økonomer, der holder øje med Verdensbanken og IMF)

What are the main concerns and criticism about the World Bank and IMF?

Criticism of the World Bank and the IMF encompasses a whole range of issues but they generally centre around concern about the approaches adopted by the World Bank and the IMF in formulating their policies. This includes the social and economic impact these policies have on the population of countries who avail themselves of financial assistance from these two institutions.

Critics of the World Bank and the IMF are concerned about the conditionalities imposed on borrower countries. The World Bank and the IMF often attach loan conditionalities based on what is termed the 'Washington Consensus', focusing on liberalisation—of trade, investment and the financial sector—, deregulation and privatisation of nationalised industries. Often the conditionalities are attached without due regard for the borrower countries' individual circumstances and the prescriptive recommendations by the World Bank and IMF fail to resolve the economic problems within the countries.

IMF conditionalities may additionally result in the loss of a state's authority to govern its own economy as national economic policies are predetermined under the structural adjustment packages. Issues of representation are raised as a consequence of the shift in the regulation of national economies from state governments to a Washington-based financial institution in which most developing countries hold little voting power.

With the World Bank, there are concerns about the types of development projects funded by the IBRD and the IDA. Many infrastructural projects financed by the World Bank Group have social and environmental implications for the populations in the affected areas and criticism has centred around the ethical issues of funding such projects. For example, World Bank-funded construction of hydroelectric dams in various countries have resulted in the displacement of indigenous peoples of the area. There are also concerns that the World Bank working in partnership with the private sector may undermine the role of the state as the primary provider of essential goods and services, such as healthcare and education, resulting in the shortfall of such services in countries badly in need of them.

Critics of the World Bank and the IMF are also apprehensive about the role of the Bretton Woods institutions in shaping the development discourse through their research, training and publishing activities. As the World Bank and the IMF are regarded as experts in the field of financial regulation and economic development, their views and prescriptions may undermine or eliminate alternative perspectives on development.

There are also criticisms against the World Bank and IMF governance structures which are dominated by industrialised countries. Decisions are made and policies implemented by leading industrialised countries—the G7—because they represent the largest donors without much consultation with poor and developing countries.

http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/item.shtml?x=320869

Baggrundstekster her: http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/back … ndex.shtml
De udgiver vist også nogle årlige rapporter eller noget i den stil, men der er mange gode tekster på deres hjemmeside.


De er ikke sådan revolutionære venstrefløjsere, men almindeligt progressive og demokratiske - men når man har med så reaktionære og antidemokratiske institutioner at gøre, så kan det også være nok til at komme med ret radikal kritik.