Comments on: The Washington Counterfactual: don’t believe the Washington Consensus resurrection /2021/04/08/the-washington-counterfactual-dont-believe-the-washington-consensus-resurrection/ A Critical Perspective On Development Economics Sat, 04 Feb 2023 21:03:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Global South Must Be at the Center of the Making of a Just Global Economic Order /2021/04/08/the-washington-counterfactual-dont-believe-the-washington-consensus-resurrection/comment-page-1/#comment-21584 Sat, 04 Feb 2023 21:03:26 +0000 http://developingeconomics.org/?p=5657#comment-21584 […] seem to get kind of muted support. I was struck in particular by something Daniela has said in coauthored work with Carolina Alves and Ingrid Kvangraven. We’re told that countries like Nicaragua […]

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]]> By: The Global South Must Be at the Center of the Making of a Just Global Economic Order - DailyLeftNews /2021/04/08/the-washington-counterfactual-dont-believe-the-washington-consensus-resurrection/comment-page-1/#comment-21576 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:48:58 +0000 http://developingeconomics.org/?p=5657#comment-21576 […] seem to get kind of muted support. I was struck in particular by something Daniela has said in coauthored work with Carolina Alves and Ingrid Kvangraven. We’re told that countries like Nicaragua would […]

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]]> By: Grift is good – Tipsheet /2021/04/08/the-washington-counterfactual-dont-believe-the-washington-consensus-resurrection/comment-page-1/#comment-15130 Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:05:04 +0000 http://developingeconomics.org/?p=5657#comment-15130 […] Big companies and market concentration isn’t always bad. But when they go bad, millions pay the price. All this bullshit about free markets regulating themselves is the corporate version of trickle-down economics, it’s pungent horseshit. When you allow the systematic and deliberate hollowing out and capture of institutions designed to keep corporate power in check, all these horror stories of people dying painfully horrific and slow deaths is what you get. But these neoliberal beliefs are like cockroaches, almost impossible to kill. […]

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]]> By: Neoliberalism and global development before and after the Washington Consensus: Agricultural credit at the World Bank – ºÚÁÏÉçÇø /2021/04/08/the-washington-counterfactual-dont-believe-the-washington-consensus-resurrection/comment-page-1/#comment-12883 Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:21:22 +0000 http://developingeconomics.org/?p=5657#comment-12883 […] We’ve witnessed a revival of debates about the Washington Consensus and the future of neoliberalism in recent months. Recent increases in public spending have led several commentators to conclude, or lament, that decades of neoliberal consensus have been shattered. Much of this debate is misguided, rooted in a mistaken dichotomy between ‘states’ and ‘markets’, and a corresponding conception of neoliberalism as primarily involving a reduction in the role of the former. Efforts to rehabilitate the Washington Consensus, meanwhile, rely on flimsy and heavily ideological counterfactuals. […]

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