Development: Learning from previous mistakes?

  • 2011-08-03
  • By Janis Berzins
There is a saying that one must learn from his or her own mistakes. Some months ago, President Barack Obama announced that the USA will create a development bank similar to the Brazilian National Bank of Social and Economic Development, to finance energy, sanitation, and transport infra-structure projects. This is strange. After all, the USA has been championing Neoliberal policies for several years, supporting general deregulation, liberalization, privatization, all in the name of the allegedly uber-rationality of the market, one based on surreal mathematical models. Is the USA turning ...
 
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