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From "Mission-Creep" To Gestalt Switch: Justice, Finance, The Ifis, And Globalization's Intended Beneficiaries, Robert C. Hockett
From "Mission-Creep" To Gestalt Switch: Justice, Finance, The Ifis, And Globalization's Intended Beneficiaries, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This essay suggests means by which the international financial institutions (IFIs), the IBRD and the IMF in particular, and indeed "globalization" more generally might be rendered more friendly to humanity. The key, it suggests, lies in a subtle shift in perspective, a "gestalt-switch": It is to move from thinking in terms of political and macroeconomic aggregates - nations and gross national products - to thinking in terms of the individuals who constitute nations and produce national products - those the essay calls the "intended beneficiaries" of globalization.
Thinking in terms of those beneficiaries and their equal claims to our concern …