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The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism
Richard Kozul-Wright
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Description for The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism
Paperback. Offers an analysis of development in the international political economy that cuts through the pro/anti neoliberal rhetoric. This work describes how the dominant trends have prevented development, and is the result of political choices in advanced economies rather than market forces and technological change. It is for students and academics. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white tables, charts, graphs. BIC Classification: KCM; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 135. Weight in Grams: 490.
“Stabilise, liberalise and privatise” has, since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, been the mantra chanted at developing countries by international financial institutions, donor countries and newspaper columnists with quasi-religious conviction. Policy debate has increasingly polarised into the rhetoric of extremes: trade liberalisers versus protectionists, cosmopolitan versus nationalist, the right-thinking versus the wrong-headed, and so on. In The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism Richard Kozul-Wright and Paul Rayment expose the mix of selective evidence, mythical economic history, simplistic assumptions and opportunistic bias which comprise this prescription for economic development. They argue that attempts to apply a ... Read more
“Stabilise, liberalise and privatise” has, since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, been the mantra chanted at developing countries by international financial institutions, donor countries and newspaper columnists with quasi-religious conviction. Policy debate has increasingly polarised into the rhetoric of extremes: trade liberalisers versus protectionists, cosmopolitan versus nationalist, the right-thinking versus the wrong-headed, and so on. In The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism Richard Kozul-Wright and Paul Rayment expose the mix of selective evidence, mythical economic history, simplistic assumptions and opportunistic bias which comprise this prescription for economic development. They argue that attempts to apply a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842776377
SKU
V9781842776377
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About Richard Kozul-Wright
Paul Rayment was until recently Director of Economic Analysis at the UN's Economic Commission for Europe. Richard Kozul-Wright is a Senior Economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and former Minister of Finance of Brasil.
Reviews for The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism
'The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism is one of the more intelligent and better-informed books about globalisation published so far. Mixing historical details with a strong grasp of the contemporary data, its commonsense political economy approach casts a clear light on the biases and asymmetries in todays globalisation process, challenges the neo-liberal dogma that there are no economic policy choices ... Read more