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Alex · 05-17-2007, 03:36 PM

Masterfully screwed by the bureaucrats. But he was stupid for not standing by his guns and insisting it be resolved by the ethics committee, preferably before he started the job.

Ghoulish Delight · 05-17-2007, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Masterfully screwed by the bureaucrats. But he was stupid for not standing by his guns and insisting it be resolved by the ethics committee, preferably before he started the job.

He was also apparently stupid for making a lot of enemies within the bank.

Alex · 05-17-2007, 03:45 PM

Well, that was pretty much unavoidable (even if he were a good manager which all indications are he is not) since his point of view was essentially:

You've all be complicit in a lot of fraud, graft, and generally criminality for the last few decades and I'm going to clean this place up.

He's mostly right (the World Bank is severely broken and creates economic incentives for despotic rule) but it isn't going to make many people very happy. That's the funniest part of the "with him in charge how can our borrowers and lenders have faith in our integrity" outrage.

I still don't like Wolfowitz and I don't think he was a good choice for the job. But this whole affair has been just a Machiavellian power struggle without much real underlying merit.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Masterfully screwed by the bureaucrats. But he was stupid for not standing by his guns and insisting it be resolved by the ethics committee, preferably before he started the job.
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Well, that was pretty much unavoidable (even if he were a good manager which all indications are he is not) since his point of view was essentially: You've all be complicit in a lot of fraud, graft, and generally criminality for the last few decades and I'm going to clean this place up. He's mostly right (the World Bank is severely broken and creates economic incentives for despotic rule) but it isn't going to make many people very happy. That's the funniest part of the "with him in charge how can our borrowers and lenders have faith in our integrity" outrage. I still don't like Wolfowitz and I don't think he was a good choice for the job. But this whole affair has been just a Machiavellian power struggle without much real underlying merit.
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