Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism: Rethinking Development Policy in an Unbalanced World

by Paul Rayment and Richard Kozul-Wright

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842776371
• ISBN13: 9781842776377
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.6"