Your Money or Your Life!: The Tyranny of Global Finance (2nd edition)
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Eric Toussaint (Author)
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In Your Money or Your Life! Eric Toussaint traces the origins and development of the crisis in global finance. Toussaint analyses the role of the World Bank, the IMF and the political restrictions they impose, examines the Structural Adjustment Programs of the 1990s, and reviews the neo-liberal policy of globalisation, which, he argues, has now run out of steam.
He outlines differing experiences of debt, drawing on case studies from Argentina, Mexico, Rwanda, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia to demonstrate the failure of the IMF/World Bank models of development. Calling for a more humanitarian and egalitarian system of handling Third World debt, this is a rigorous reassessment of global finance.
About the Author
Eric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist with a PhD from the Universities of Paris VIII and Liege. He is spokesperson for the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) of which he is one of the founding members. He took part in the process that launched the World Social Forum in 2001. He is the author of numerous books, including The Debt System; Bankocracy, and Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers.
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- Contributor: Eric Toussaint
- Imprint: Pluto Press
- ISBN13: 9780745319261
- Number of Pages: 500
- Packaged Dimensions: 135x215mm
- Packaged Weight: 670
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Release Date: 2005-10-20
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Eric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist with a PhD from the Universities of Paris VIII and Liege. He is spokesperson for the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) of which he is one of the founding members. He took part in the process that launched the World Social Forum in 2001. He is the author of numerous books, including The Debt System; Bankocracy, and Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers.
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