Benjamin, Bret.

Invested interests : capital, culture, and the World Bank / Bret Benjamin. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007. - xxxiii, 274 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-261) and index.

Introduction: Accounting for culture -- Imaginative ventures : cultivating confidence at Bretton Woods -- Imperial burden : selling development to Wall Street -- Uncomfortable intimacies : managing third world nationalisms -- Culture underwritten : radical critique and the bank's cultural turn -- Success stories : NGOs and the banking Bildungsroman -- Literary movements : impossible collectivities in The god of small things -- Minimum agendas : the world social forum and the place of culture.

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World Bank--History.
World Bank--Influence.
World Bank--Social aspects.


Economic assistance.
Globalization.

HG3881.5.W57 / B456 2007

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