This work rejects the current celebration of knowledge and value relativism on the grounds that it renders critical reason and commonsense incapable of resisting the superificial ideologies of minoritarianism that leave the hard core of global capitalism unanalyzed.

As the linchpin of the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund provides the balance of payments support, chiefly to developing countries, conditional on strict remedial policy measures.
Its approach to policy remains highly controversial, however. While the Fund claims it has adapted, critics allege its policies are harshly doctrinaire, imposing hardships on already poverty-stricken people. For the critics, the half century of its existence is fifty years too long' and radical change is essential.
This book examines the arguments, tracing the extent of Fund adaption,...