Book review: Unholy trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO Richard Peet

Reform of the IMF and World Bank

Supervenience, Emergence, and Epiphenomenalism: Physicalism’s Unholy Trinity

The unholy trinity: taxonomy, species delimitation and DNA barcoding.

Recent excitement over the development of an initiative to generate DNA sequences for all named species on the planet has in our opinion generated two major areas of contention as to how this 'DNA barcoding' initiative should proceed. It is critical that these two issues are clarified and resolved, before the use of DNA as a tool for taxonomy and species delimitation can be universalized. The f...

Unholy Trinity: Labor, Capital, and Land in the New Economy

My theme in these lectures is the capacity of the methods of the Classical political economists, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and their critic, Karl Marx, to reveal the self-organizing character of the capitalist economy regarded as a complex, adaptive, non-equilibrium system. From one point of view this is an exercise in anachronism, since the language of complex systems theory a...

The effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty

Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF and World Bank, reduces the growth elasticity of poverty reduction. I find no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. The poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By the same token, the poor suffer less fro...