Full name: The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations

Author: Sebastian Mallaby Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Economics, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780143036791 0143036793

Never has the World Bank's relief work been more important than in the last nine years, when crises as huge as AIDS and the emergence of terrorist sanctuaries have threatened the prosperity of billions. This journalistic masterpiece by Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby charts those controversial years at the Bank under the leadership of James Wolfensohn--the unstoppable power broker whose daring efforts to enlarge the planet's wealth in an age of globalization and terror were matched only by the force of his polarizing personality. Based on unprecedented access to its subject, this captivating tour through the messy reality of global development is that rare triumph--an emblematic story through which a gifted author has channeled the spirit of the age.This edition features a new afterword by the author that analyzes the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as Wolfensohn's successor at the World bank Similar books: The End of Alchemy by Mervyn King The Origin of Financial Crises by George Cooper Fault Lines by Raghuram G. Rajan After the Music Stopped by Alan S. Blinder How Markets Fail by John Cassidy The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan The Tyranny of Experts by William Easterly The Bankers' New Clothes by Anat Admati The Real Crash by Peter D. Schiff Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller The Chastening by Paul Blustein Other People's Money by John Kay Endgame by John Mauldin Freefall by Joseph E. Stiglitz The Man Who Knew by Sebastian Mallaby Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee Principles of Economics by Carl Menger Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee And the Money Kept Rolling In by Paul Blustein