![]() ![]() ![]() In 1945 or 1950, if you had seriously proposed any of the ideas and policies in today's standard neo-liberal toolkit, you would have been laughed off the stage at or sent off to the insane asylum. I'm sorry to tell you that in order to make any sense, I have to start even further back, some 50 years ago, just after the end of World War II. The Conference organisers have asked me for a brief history of neo-liberalism which they title "Twenty Years of Elite Economics". ![]() Meanwhile, interested readers may want to check out This piece has already been fairly widely circulated on the internet, though not, up to now, by me. A book of all the contributions will be published in 2000 and will be well worth purchasing. He has not yet seen the error of his ways and continues to organise subversive events like this one. ![]() Walden, a distinguished Filipino scholar, author and man of high political culture is known for once having donned a Kermit the Frog costume and hopped into an International Monetary Fund conference to present dumfounded officials with a demand that they stop supporting Ferdinand Marcos. This excellent conference in Bangkok was put together by, inter alia, Walden Bello, my TNI colleague who wears many prestigious hats, including that of Director of Focus on the Global South. Presented at the Conference on Economic Sovereignty in a Globalising World, Bangkok, 24-26 March 1999 ![]()
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