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Les universalistes se concentrent sur l’agriculture et l’Eurafrique pour mener au sein du GATT l’attaque contre l’intégration européenne. Loin d’être anodins, les affrontements sur les bananes, le café et le cacao marquent le début de décennies de lutte des néolibéraux de l’école de Genève contre ce qu’ils percevaient comme la persistance de l’empi
... See moreQuinn Slobodian • Les Globalistes: Une histoire intellectuelle du néolibéralisme (French Edition)
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis
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Even then, China’s turmoil did not end. The new state embarked on a Soviet-style centrally planned economy in the 1950s, but Mao became impatient with the results by the end of the 1950s and launched the Great Leap Forward to accelerate industrialization. The result was chaos and starvation, as farmers were required to leave the fields and devote t
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
What the Mexico case demonstrated, however, was a key difference between liberal and neoliberal practice: under the former, lenders take the losses that arise from bad investment decisions, while under the latter the borrowers are forced by state and international powers to take on board the cost of debt repayment no matter what the consequences fo
... See moreDavid Harvey • A Brief History of Neoliberalism
In 2005 an international treaty eliminated quotas on textile imports to the United States. Two years later, Congress finally extended federal minimum wage legislation to the Northern Marianas. The garment industry in Saipan collapsed, and manufacturers moved to China, Vietnam, and Cambodia. By that time, Jack Abramoff had been convicted of conspira
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