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The so-called Washington Consensus, confidently enforced by the IMF, World Bank, and other economic institutions since the 1970s, has been comprehensively challenged from within the ranks of its own practitioners.

From moment to moment, television has an ineluctable way of making connections, sometimes surprising and sometimes not surprising at all.

the impression that there is only one way to address global poverty (let’s call it messianic neoliberalism)

it seemed like a case of old-fashioned brinksmanship, warning “partisans of the deed” that the state itself can match their boldness and ferocity

the dimension of spectacle has never before interfered so palpably, so insistently, with the business of keeping one’s satrapies in order