Sowing Dragons

[Michael Perelman]

Brad, with structural adjustment programs virtually covering the map,
except for the major industrial countries, shouldn't the question be,
turned around to be, what makes a country be able to make decisions?
Would the major industrial powers look kindly upon an incorruptible
leader who did not toe the IMF line?  Wouldn't he be the next world
demon?

Brad De Long wrote:


>
> And what makes a state able to give orders? And what makes a state
> *wish* to give orders that accelerate the pace of economic
> development--rather than simply to transfer all property to the
> state's functionaries and their relatives?
>
> Deep questions to which I do *not* know the answers.
>

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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