What's the old saying, "money talks and bullshit walks". I don't think anyone can deny that the IMF and the OECD have money, and, all the raw power that money can buy. I mean you and I can make threats all day, and, I also don't doubt that your collection of pictures of dead presidents is bigger than mine,but, we don't have the cash to pose any kind of a credible threat to anyone in the IMF or OCED league.
I don't know who Pierre is, but, Pierre is the smartest Frenchman I've read in a long time.
Sincerely, Tom L.
Brad De Long wrote:
> RE: The essence of neoliberalism
> >
> > As the dominant discourse would have it, the economic world is...
> > prompt to repress all violations... through the intermediary of
> > its armed extensions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the
> > Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...
>
> If this were the gong show, he'd be gone halfway through this first
> paragraph. The OECD as an *armed* extension of the economic world???
>
> Brad DeLong