The second of two volumes written “in and against development” meticulously criticizes the World Bank’s scholarship and assesses alternative approaches to development studies. Long self-proclaimed as “Knowledge Bank”, the World Bank is as active as criticized in its endeavors across scholarship, ideology and policy in practice, serving US interests in the age of globalization, neoliberalism and financialization. Its analytical framing draws upon economics imperialism in general, and its evolution through three phases. Corresponding phases of new, newer and newest development economics are…mehr
The second of two volumes written “in and against development” meticulously criticizes the World Bank’s scholarship and assesses alternative approaches to development studies. Long self-proclaimed as “Knowledge Bank”, the World Bank is as active as criticized in its endeavors across scholarship, ideology and policy in practice, serving US interests in the age of globalization, neoliberalism and financialization. Its analytical framing draws upon economics imperialism in general, and its evolution through three phases. Corresponding phases of new, newer and newest development economics are identified, with the World Bank taking a leading role in each, with implications for the expanding scope of development economics and its contestations with development studies.
Ben Fine is Emeritus Professor of Economics at SOAS University of and Visiting Professor at Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. His most recent books include Material Cultures of Financialisation, co-edited with Kate Bayliss and Mary Robertson (Routledge, 2018); Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic State, co-edited with John Reynolds and Robert van Niekerk (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2019); and A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why, with Kate Bayliss (Palgrave, 2021). His Marx’s ‘Capital’ (Pluto, 2016) is now in its sixth edition (with co-author Alfredo Saad-Filho). He was founding Chair of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (iippe.org) until June 2023.
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Contents Preface vii 1 Locating Development Economics 1 Postamble: Locating the World Bank 14 2 Beyond Bureaucrats in Business: A Critical Review of the World Bank Approach to Privatisation and Public Sector Reform 23 Postscript as Personal Preamble 23 1 Introduction 28 2 Privatisation Theory: The New Synthesis 29 3 Bureaucrats in Business: Context and Outline 31 4 A Critique 32 4.1 Narrow Analytical Framework 34 4.2 Selective Use of Evidence and Bias in Interpretation 36 4.3 Narrow View of What Constitutes Industrial Policy Leading to Over-Generalisation of Conclusions 40 5 Concluding Remarks 43 Appendix: Debating the Provision of Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Response to Nellis 44 3 The Developmental State Is Dead – Long Live Social Capital? 47 Postscript as Personal Preamble 47 1 Introduction 48 2 The Microeconomic Foundations 50 3 The Forward March of Social Capital 52 4 Neither Washington nor Post-Washington Consensus 59 5 Concluding Remarks 64 4 Flattening Economic Geography: Locating the World Development Report for 2009 67 Postscript as Personal Preamble 67 1 Introduction 68 2 neg as ei 69 3 From Pre- to Post-Washington Consensus 80 4 Fixing the wdr09 84 5 From Finance to Climate by Way of Conclusion 90 vi Contents 5 Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015 93 Postscript as Personal Preamble 93 1 Introduction 93 2 wdr 2015 and the Knowledge Bank 95 3 Situating the Turn to Behavioural Economics at the Bank 99 4 The wdr Approach to Behavioural Economics 103 4.1 The wdr’s Mental Model 103 4.2 Behavioural Economics and Development: The Conquest of Another Frontier? 106 5 From Behavioural Economics to World Bank Policy in Practice: The Case of hiv- Related Cash Transfers 111 6 Concluding Remarks 115 6 A Paradigm Shift that Never Will Be? Justin Lin’s New Structural Economics 117 Postscript as Personal Preamble 117 1 Introduction 121 2 From Comparative Advantage to Development: Lin and the nse 125 3 Lin and the Bank 141 4 Conclusion 148 7 Locating the Developmental State and Industrial Policy after the Crisis 152 Postscript as Personal Preamble 152 Foreword 154 1 Introduction 162 2 Lessons from the Developmental State Paradigm 167 3 Industrial Policy 191 4 South-South Cooperation by Way of Conclusion 209 8 The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy 223 Postscript as Personal Preamble 223 1 Introduction and Overview 226 2 From Welfare Regimenting … 232 3 … to Convergence through Path Dependence to Crisis 245 4 This Time (Social Policy) Is (and Was) Different(iated) 252 5 Social Policy – It’s Financialisation, Stupid 259 6 Towards Alternatives 272 7 Conclusions as Starting Points 290 References 293 Index 344
Contents Preface vii 1 Locating Development Economics 1 Postamble: Locating the World Bank 14 2 Beyond Bureaucrats in Business: A Critical Review of the World Bank Approach to Privatisation and Public Sector Reform 23 Postscript as Personal Preamble 23 1 Introduction 28 2 Privatisation Theory: The New Synthesis 29 3 Bureaucrats in Business: Context and Outline 31 4 A Critique 32 4.1 Narrow Analytical Framework 34 4.2 Selective Use of Evidence and Bias in Interpretation 36 4.3 Narrow View of What Constitutes Industrial Policy Leading to Over-Generalisation of Conclusions 40 5 Concluding Remarks 43 Appendix: Debating the Provision of Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Response to Nellis 44 3 The Developmental State Is Dead – Long Live Social Capital? 47 Postscript as Personal Preamble 47 1 Introduction 48 2 The Microeconomic Foundations 50 3 The Forward March of Social Capital 52 4 Neither Washington nor Post-Washington Consensus 59 5 Concluding Remarks 64 4 Flattening Economic Geography: Locating the World Development Report for 2009 67 Postscript as Personal Preamble 67 1 Introduction 68 2 neg as ei 69 3 From Pre- to Post-Washington Consensus 80 4 Fixing the wdr09 84 5 From Finance to Climate by Way of Conclusion 90 vi Contents 5 Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015 93 Postscript as Personal Preamble 93 1 Introduction 93 2 wdr 2015 and the Knowledge Bank 95 3 Situating the Turn to Behavioural Economics at the Bank 99 4 The wdr Approach to Behavioural Economics 103 4.1 The wdr’s Mental Model 103 4.2 Behavioural Economics and Development: The Conquest of Another Frontier? 106 5 From Behavioural Economics to World Bank Policy in Practice: The Case of hiv- Related Cash Transfers 111 6 Concluding Remarks 115 6 A Paradigm Shift that Never Will Be? Justin Lin’s New Structural Economics 117 Postscript as Personal Preamble 117 1 Introduction 121 2 From Comparative Advantage to Development: Lin and the nse 125 3 Lin and the Bank 141 4 Conclusion 148 7 Locating the Developmental State and Industrial Policy after the Crisis 152 Postscript as Personal Preamble 152 Foreword 154 1 Introduction 162 2 Lessons from the Developmental State Paradigm 167 3 Industrial Policy 191 4 South-South Cooperation by Way of Conclusion 209 8 The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy 223 Postscript as Personal Preamble 223 1 Introduction and Overview 226 2 From Welfare Regimenting … 232 3 … to Convergence through Path Dependence to Crisis 245 4 This Time (Social Policy) Is (and Was) Different(iated) 252 5 Social Policy – It’s Financialisation, Stupid 259 6 Towards Alternatives 272 7 Conclusions as Starting Points 290 References 293 Index 344
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