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GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS Joseph Stiglitz (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 304 pages
An insider's account of global economic policy-making, Stiglitz provides a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of the world's leading development institutions. Stiglitz is a scathing critic of the "cookie-cutter" economic policies of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization, but the Nobel-Prize-winning economist holds a particular disdain for the IMF, the...