Sebastian Mallaby's The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (2004) (The World's Banker)[1] is a financial biography book. British journalist Mallaby is a highly ranked member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[2] working in international economics.
Mallaby follows a formula in his books, using each chapter to focus on a different geographic concern related to the world bank during the tenure of J.D. Wolfensohn.
Preface: The Prisoner of Lilliput
Chapter One: A Tale of Two Ambitions - concerns the outlook of U.S. president after the attacks.
Afterword: regarding the appointment of successor Paul Wolfowitz
ReceptionEdit
"Mallaby gives us a sophisticated, evenhanded take on the bank's last decade of development efforts."[3]
"Mallaby, a Washington Post editorial writer, provides a sympathetic yet critical assessment of the World Bank under Wolfensohn's leadership, crediting him for bringing the bank much closer to its developing-country clients but faulting him for trying to take on too wide a scope of activity without a clear and manageable set of priorities." [4]
EditionsEdit
The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Penguin Press, October, 2004. Hardcover USA. ISBN15942002381st ed. pages: 432.
The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Penguin Press, April 25, 2006. Hardcover USA. ISBN978-01430367912nd ed. pages: 496.
This edition features a new afterword by the author that analyzes the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as Wolfensohn's successor at the World bank.
^"sebastian mallaby", Academic Influence, 2018, retrieved 2 February 2022
^Drezner, Daniel W. (5 December 2004), "'The World's Banker': Give to the Poor", New York Times, retrieved 2 February 2022
^Cooper, Richard N. (January 2005), "'The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations", Foreign Affairs, retrieved 2 February 2022
^"James David Wolfensohn". World Bank. from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
External linksEdit
After Words interview with Mallaby on More Money Than God, August 28, 2010
August 28, 2023
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