>>Mallaby, who spent 13 years writing for the London Economist and wrote a favorable biography of World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, holds that Perkins' conception of international finance is "largely a dream" and that his "basic contentions are flat wrong."<<

This may be true as I'm no economic scholar and have never read the Perkins book but I'm also very suspicious of people who say, "He's wrong," and offer nothing by which to illustrate the point. Nor from his credentials could he be called impartial.