Patrick: (Actually, the real differences between the IMF and Zimbabwe's kleptocratic elite didn't boil down to land or even the massive expenditure on the DRC war. The split came over Mugabe's dirigism after the currency crash of 1997; the IMF repeatedly complained about--in both internal memos and public media interviews--three key state interventions: reinstallation of exchange controls, price controls and luxury-goods import tariffs.)
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CB: I'm trying to figure out why the American, British, etc. elites are not referred to as "kleptocratic" on a regular basis, since they ripoff more than any other elite in the world.