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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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imputation

I think this was a very flawed analysis, and it remains so now. It imputes to capitalists a motive and an interest that they’ve never had. Capitalists have always and everywhere had only one interest, which is making profits.

—p.83 Development From Below (81) by Vivek Chibber
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belie

I guess this belies the notion that there was this national bourgeoisie that was in any way inherently progressive, or was a natural partner of the working class.

on states like India and Turkey trying to enlist the bourgeoisie's support in rapid industrialisation and mostly failing (kinda like the Russian Revolution I guess)

—p.83 Development From Below (81) by Bhaskar Sunkara
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Washington Consensus

Marketize, privatize, deregulate: the Washington Consensus mantra dominated policy in the developing world for a quarter century. For most the recipe was a disaster.

—p.81 Development From Below (81) by Vivek Chibber
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plutocracy

Similar mechanisms prevail at the un, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank. Nationally, we aspire to live in democracies. Internationally, we inhabit a plutocracy.

referring to voting power in the IMF being based on economy size not pop size

—p.79 Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty (75) by Jacobin
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what have we been doing to them? inspo/anti-capitalism

If community programs have consistently floundered, both in the past and today, what’s left? A return to the rule of experts? Bigger dams and better seeds? If faced with two approaches — that of the development expert, asking “What can we do for the poor?” and that of the community developer, askin…

—p.78 Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty (75) by Jacobin