Michael Manley

[hoov]

> Manley was elected at just the moment that the world economy was about to
> deliver an absolutely devastating blow to Jamaica's capacity to import--and
> to Jamaican standards of living...
> Brad DeLong

Jamaica was - and probobaly still is - importing about 85% of its produced 
goods, fuels, food, machinery, and transportation equipment...

Manley was re-elected prime minister again in 1989 as a defender of
market relations...the PNP government pursued neo-liberal currency,
importation, and privatization policies...in addition to asserting
that "Adam Smith was right," Manley argued that few options to
market-oriented policies existed in the wake of the "defeat of
socialism"...Michael Hoover