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(1) Mandates were violated. Promises made were broken. The "rising tide that (lifts) all boats" never happened. Free-market diktats "demonstrably and significantly increased inequality."
(2) GDP inaccurately measures economic wellbeing. People matter more. Their needs are ignored. IMF/WB diktats mandate it.
(3) Free-trade isn't fair. Unelected technocrats run things. Government officials are pressured, bullied and bribed to go along. They do so for benefits they derive.
(4) Unelected IMF/WB/WTO policy makers are interlinked. Conflicts of interest corrupt them. Monied interests control them. Checks and balances are absent. Public scrutiny's avoided.
(5) Force-fed austerity causes enormous harm. No "success stories" exist.
(6) Real ones "achieved relatively high economic growth through extensive state involvement"."
Measures include "land reform, tight control of trade, state enterprises, government-funded research and infrastructure, high tariff barriers to protect infant industries from foreign competition, and favoring certain sectors of the economy through subsidies and state-directed investment."
(7) Predatory capitalism's environmentally destructive. Ecological sustainability becomes impossible.
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