British academic faces stern test at World Bank

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 28 11:51:37 PDT 2000


Jim heartfield wrote:


>The World Bank is quite a hotbed of radicalism these days. I see that
>the chief theoretician of the 'International Socialists' Nigel Harris is
>working for them, too.

And a bunch of ex-CPGBers think and flack for Tony Blair.

The WB is interested in a softer PR line, but no serious change in policy. Stiglitz and Kanbur, who are hardly radicals, still posed too much of a threat, so Summers booted them.

Doug



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