[lbo-talk] BTN on James Galbraith

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sat May 5 12:46:45 PDT 2012


On May 5, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
> They routinely find basic neoliberal policies lead to more and more
> inequality...and inequality ends in instability, a polite word for
> crisis.
>
But is it the "neoliberal" policies themselves or is it the inequality they produced? It seems to be the former because China, now on the verge of becoming the biggest part of the world economy, has experienced thirty years of grossly increasing inequality without ever approaching what in "Western" terms would be a "crisis."

Shane Mage

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