On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Brad De Long wrote:
>
> >Of course I support the broad outlines of U.S. occupation policy in
> >Japan. It appears to have worked damned well--unless you think
> >freedom of speech, regular elections, and material prosperity are
> >bad things.
>
> So a "liberal" order always rests on a founding coercion?
I think that's Michael Perelman's argument in _The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation_.
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