Our lives are all affected by three hugely powerful and well financed, but undemocratic, organizations: the International Monetary Fund, the World ...
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Oct 26, 2010
Bird Brian
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Did they have to make it so boring?
I want to give this five stars, because this is all important stuff, and there aren’t enough books out there that critically examine the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the World Trade Organization (WTO). On the other hand, some of this is written with a humorless, impersonal, bone-dry legalistic style which makes me want to curl up into a fetal ball and cry myself to sleep. There are better, or at least more engaging, b More...
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Mar 15, 2010
Nick
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Review of 2nd ed: Richard Peet is a longtime critical development scholar working within economic geography. In Unholy Trinity (2nd ed.) he works to deconstruct the discursive systems that are the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO. This book probably requires training in neoclassical economics and some familiarity (I'm not sure I would say "comfort") with discourse analysis, and as a result of Peet's objectives (deconstruction of neoliberal discourse) has been rather tedious to get thro
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May 15, 2011
Matthieutc
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This book covers the three international financial institutions: the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO. It offers a deconstructive critique of the whole Bretton Woods system.
The first chapter sets the tone and introduces concepts such as Marx's "ideology" or Gramsci's "hegemonic discourse". It quickly goes over globalization, neoliberalism, the Washington Consensus, and the birth of the three financial institutions. Each subsequent chapter is dedicated to each one of tho More...
The first chapter sets the tone and introduces concepts such as Marx's "ideology" or Gramsci's "hegemonic discourse". It quickly goes over globalization, neoliberalism, the Washington Consensus, and the birth of the three financial institutions. Each subsequent chapter is dedicated to each one of tho More...
Nov 13, 2009
Christina
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The first edition of Unholy Trinity was co-written and titled by students who took the same class I’m currently taking. This edition, though, is definitely all Professor Peet.While it’s not nearly as confusing as Geography of Power, this book goes off on tangent after tangent.
Unholy Trinity delves into what Peet considers to be undemocratic, American-dominated organizations that operates more as corporations than organizations committed to every member country’s interest. Peet does a More...
Unholy Trinity delves into what Peet considers to be undemocratic, American-dominated organizations that operates more as corporations than organizations committed to every member country’s interest. Peet does a More...
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Dec 30, 2009
Suraj
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He is a godforsaken terrible writer, and I mean terrible. This book, the most recent edition, is unfocused, and more importantly disjointed,and heavily biased. It got to the point where, even when he was citing fact, I had tremendous difficulty in believing it. The reason: he wrote it. From his thesis in the first chapter, and his continuous persistence on proclaiming it throughout the book through examples with in your face commentary, on what it really means, without letting you interpret i
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