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the liberal path to growth only makes sense if you are an early developer, since you have no competitors--pace the United Kingdom in the eighteenth century and the United States in the nineteenth century. Yet in the contemporary world, development is almost always state led.

the insistence that all developing states follow their liberal instruction sheets to get rich, the so-called Washington Consensus approach to development

The policy objective [...] "achievement competition" rather than "impediment competition," whereby the quality of products manufactured would create the demand for them, in a modern supply-side restatement of Say's law.

his concept of gales of "creative destruction" that sweep through the economy. Torn asunder by the entrepreneurial utilization of technology, continual organizational innovation, and the rigors of competition, businesses rise and fall, driving the business cycle over time

Austerity may be painful, but it is unavoidable since undergoing such emetic periods is the essence of capitalism's process of investment and discovery