Books

Bruce Rich is an American writer and lawyer who has published extensively on the environment in developing countries and development in general. He is the author of To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic From Ancient India, a philosophical and historical reflection on the need for a global ethic in a global economy, with a foreword by Amartya Sen and an afterword by the Dalai Lama. He has published extensively on the role of Export Credit Agencies in developing countries, especially concerning the environmental impact of projects funded by them. His most recent book, Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction, focuses on issues such as climate change, governance and corruption.

To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic From Ancient India

In this powerful critique of the current wave of globalization, Rich urgently calls for a new global ethic, distilling the messages of Ashoka and Kautilya while reflecting on thinkers across the ages from Aristotle and Adam Smith to George Soros.

Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

Drawing on in depth institutional knowledge, hundreds of case studies, and scores of internal and external reports and evaluations, Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction is the story of larger-than-life personalities, international intrigue, and human suffering brought about by a winner-take-all economic globalization. It reveals the World Bank as a microcosm of global politics, where governments and markets are failing to address the most urgent challenges facing our world.

Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development

A deeply researched and widely acclaimed account of the World Bank and its destructive impact on the environment and social equity, as well as a questioning of the history, underlying assumptions, and goals of globalized economic development.

Anthologies

This section has material on four chapters I authored in four different books, plus a preface and essay I authored for a book on Ashoka published in Bengali in Bangladesh in 2016.