Your Money or Your Life
The Tyranny of Global Finance
Toussaint, Eric
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Year First Published: 1998
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 488pp ISBN: 1-931859-18-3
Dewey: 336.3'435'091724
Resource Type: Book
In the last decade, neoliberal policies have created debt and global impoverishment on a massive scale. In this updated edition of his internationally acclaimed book, Eric Toussaint traces the origins and development of the crisis in global finance.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface to the Third Edition
Foreword by Christian de Brie
Introduction
1. Globalization and the neoliberal offensive
2. The concentration of capital
3. Globalization and exclusion: The Third World is marginalized and the Triad gains strangth
4. Global finance in crisis: The financial assets of industrial MNCs increase
5. Enron and Co.: The fiasco of the new US-style economy
6. Globalization and the growing debt burden
7. Retrospective on the debt crisis
8. The Third World debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s
9. Transfers from periphery to center, from labor to capital
10. The World Bank and the IMF: Sixty years is enough!
11. The debt crisis and World Bank legitimacy
12. World Bank and IMF structural adjustment programs
13. The two phases of structural adjustment
14. Neoliberal ideology and politics: Historical perspectives
15. The debt crisis at the start of the new century: Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
16. Four case studies: Brazil, Argentina, Iraq, Rwanda
17. Asian storms: Will those tamed dragons breathe fire once more?
18. The ups and downs of the World Bank/IMF/WTO trio
19. Ideas for alternatives
20. Another world is possible after all!
Chronology: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Third World
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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