World Bank InfoShop,

New Rules for Global Finance Coalition

and

Global Civil Society Team, External Affairs, World Bank

 

invite you to a special presentation and launch of

"Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System"

 

Thursday, March 30, 2006 from 3pm - 4:30pm

World Bank J Building- J1-050

701 18th St. NW (corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

 

Please RSVP to: infoshopevents@worldbank.org

 

Throughout his career, Raymond Baker has been thoroughly committed to capitalism.  He has seen it all, and now he offers careful analysis and gripping examples illustrating the serious problems besetting the global free-market system. With this book, Baker provides a fascinating insider’s look at the way criminals, terrorists, and businesspeople move dirty money around the world, impoverishing billions and corrupting capitalism’s ideals of fair play.  In a highly readable account, he links banking, commerce, law, economics, and philosophy with passionate advocacy of steps that must be taken to renew capitalism’s mandate for the spread of global prosperity.

 

Presented by the author, Raymond Baker

 

Raymond Baker is an internationally respected authority on governance, growth, and foreign policy issues as they influence developing and transitional economies.  After more than 40 years of experience in the private sector, he is now a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, both in Washington, DC. 

 

Chaired by Jo Marie Griesgraber

Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition

 

Comments by Mark Weisbrot

Co-Director, Center for Economic Policy Research

 

Comments by Branko L. Milanovic

Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

 

Click here for more information or to order this title

 

About the New Rules for Global Finance

New Rules for Global Finance is a coalition of development, human rights, labor, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty and inequality, uphold fundamental rights, and protect the environment.

 

About the Global Civil Society Team

The Global CST serves as the institutional and global focal point for the Bank’s engagement with civil society.   As such, the CST formulates institutional strategy, provides advice to senior management, coordinates communications among civil society engagement staff across the institution, provides guidance and technical assistance to program staff on how to consult and involve civil society in Bank operations, undertakes ongoing outreach efforts to global civil society networks, and facilitates CSO access to Bank information, staff, and other resources.

 

About the InfoShop

The InfoShop is the public information center and development bookstore of the World Bank.  The InfoShop hosts book launches, exhibits, seminars, receptions, and other community outreach events.