Taylor, Marcus (2003) The World Bank, global accumulation and the antinomies of capitalist development. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis presents an investigation into the changing institutional form and
policy content of the World Bank over the last two decades. It does this by
relating the former to the contradictory trajectory of capitalist development at a
global level. It is suggested that the noted transitions in the World Bank at the
close of the millennium represent a series of reactive mediations to the
unanticipated results of neoliberal-style reform. The latter are manifest in
uneven development on a global scale, recurrent crises across the global South,
and the expansion of local and global struggles that target the limits of
development in its capitalist fonn. To build this argument the thesis examines
the contradictory essence of capitalist development; the position of the World
Bank as an international organisation within the context of global capitalist
social relations; and the nature of Bank policy prescription in the 1980s and
1990s. Additionally, the thesis concretises this analysis through a case study of
the Chilean experience of neoliberal-style reforms that closely mirror the World
Bank's prescription of "best practice".

Item Type:	Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	World Bank, Capitalism -- Chile, Capitalism
Official Date:	November 2003
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Sociology
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Clarke, Simon, 1946-
Extent:	vi, 348 leaves
Language:	eng

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