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The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold

by Greg Palast

Review and Essay by Jeanne Curran, Susan R. Takata, and Olivier Urbain
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This essay is based on The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold Observer, London. Wednesday, October 10, 2001. "Joe Stiglitz: Today's Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics" by Greg Palast. backup

Conceptual linking:

  • Assymetric information - understanding the variable
  • Economics - the financial sphere and power
  • Accountability - to whom? how?

Discussion Topics:

  1. To what does the "secrecy" which surrounds the World Bank refer?

    Consider:

    • Accountability
    • Transparency of agendas
    • Freedom of access to information

  2. How does the secrecy that surrounds the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank affect the power sphere in social democracies, in third world countries, in our local lifeworlds?

    Consider:

    • The power of surveillance
    • The power of hierarchical access to information in a bureaucracy
    • The power of exclusion
    • The power of the "dinner table"

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