>In addition to Doug's analysis, I strongly recommend David Harvey's
>"A Brief History of Neoliberalism" --
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>http://makeashorterlink.com/?G5A5252FB
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>in which this topic is addressed at some length, in a very
>accessible fashion, in chapter 2: 'The Construction of Consent'.
That's a really good book. As usual, I take issue with his predictions of disaster, but otherwise, you can't beat it as a broad economic history of the last 25 years. The chapter on China is esp good.
Doug