http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#world-bank And apocalyptic rumors. And the debt crisis. And the lumpentechnocracy. <ul>To read: <li>Michele Alacevich, <cite>The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years</cite> [<a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=17141">blurb</a>] <li>Jonathan Fox and L. David Brown (eds.), <cite>The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs, and Grassroots Movements</cite> <li>Sebastian Mallaby, <cite>The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations</cite> <li>David A. Phillips, <cite>Reforming the World Bank: Twenty Years of Trial &mdash; and Error</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/9780521883054">blurb</a>] <li>Catherine Weaver, <cite>Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform</cite> [<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8779.html">Blurb</a>] </ul>