Washington Consensus
description: broad set of economic policies commonly prescribed by institutions based in Washington D.C. such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
by Arundhati Roy · 5 May 2014 · 91pp · 26,009 words
living saint, not just because he is a freedom fighter who spent twenty-seven years in prison but also because he deferred completely to the Washington Consensus. Socialism disappeared from the ANC’s agenda. South Africa’s great “peaceful transition,” so praised and lauded, meant no land reforms, no demands for reparation
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
by James Meek · 18 Aug 2014 · 232pp · 77,956 words
racing, expanding tide of victorious free marketism flickered at my wheels, a tide that has gone by many names – consumer capitalism, Reaganism, Thatcherism, neoliberalism, the Washington Consensus. Though the watchtowers still stood at the old border between two Germanys, the border was gone. In eastern Germany, the narrow cobbled streets of medieval
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the Russians or Ukrainians of responsibility for their handling of the aftermath of communism, but the template they were handed by the fraternity of the Washington Consensus was based on fake history. If this is what the triumphalists of Wall Street and the City of London told the Russians about the way
How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--And What It Really Means
by John Lanchester · 5 Oct 2014 · 261pp · 86,905 words
,000), whereas spending $7 would be too much, and spending $5 would be a bargain. There’s something beautifully chilling and amoral about the VOSL. Washington consensus One name for the neoliberal economic model, as imposed on developing and emerging economies by the big international economic institutions. It was crisply summarized by
The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs Over Self-Interest
by Yochai Benkler · 8 Aug 2011 · 187pp · 62,861 words
Commission in Europe, and the emergence of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as bearers of what came to be known as “the Washington Consensus.” The Invisible Hand seemed to have completely won when even the center-left governments of the United States and the United Kingdom, under Bill Clinton
The Capitalist Manifesto
by Johan Norberg · 14 Jun 2023 · 295pp · 87,204 words
, November 1997. 22. George Ayittey, Indigenous African institutions, Brill, 2nd edn, 2006. 23. Ayittey 2006, p.486. 24. Belinda Archibong, Brahima Coulibaly & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, ‘Washington Consensus reforms and economic performance in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from the past four decades’, AGI Working Paper 27, February 2021. 25. World Bank, Economic Growth
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growth: New stylized facts on policy and growth outcomes’, working paper 26318, National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019. 32. Kevin Grier & Robin Grier, ‘The Washington Consensus works: Causal effects of reform, 1970–2015’, Journal of Comparative Economics vol.49, No 1, March 2021. Pasquale Marco Marrazzo & Alessio Terzi, ‘Structural reform waves
The Challenge for Africa
by Wangari Maathai · 6 Apr 2009 · 288pp · 90,349 words
spur high rates of growth, however, the IMF, World Bank, and the U.S. Treasury Department prescribed new measures. In what became known as the Washington Consensus, poor countries were encouraged—in some cases mandated—to further liberalize their policies on trade and the free flow of capital. In order to accelerate
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and working against debt and poverty, a growing number of economists, among them the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, began to view the prescriptions of the Washington Consensus as neither concerned enough with equity—who benefited from these policies—nor focused sufficiently on the economic sustainability of global GDP growth and its political
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Pérez · 1 Jan 2002
(WTO) in their Seattle meeting, in November 1999, may well have marked the beginning of growing open international political pressure to change the so-called ‘Washington consensus’. Whatever the manifestation, the political pressures calling for action finally propel the required changes. The financial collapse that usually marks the end of this period
The Money Machine: How the City Works
by Philip Coggan · 1 Jul 2009 · 253pp · 79,214 words
Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the failure of those countries, notably in Africa, that had followed a statist or socialist model. A so-called ‘Washington consensus’ argued that any economy which wanted to prosper should follow the free-market model: lower taxes, reduced government deficits and open capital markets. These policies
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countries requiring aid from the International Monetary Fund, the Washington-based organization that underpins the global financial system. The period since 2000 has seen the Washington consensus come under attack. First, the US model looks not quite as attractive as it did in the late 1990s. The dotcom bubble burst in 2000
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun, Stephen Hoye and Audible Studios · 15 Nov 2013 · 238pp · 73,121 words
geopolitics. A social democratic and paternalistic Europe together with a recast U.S.S.R. would have enough reasons and power to oppose the neoliberal Washington consensus. The geopolitically and ideologically marginalized America, however, would not be doing too badly economically. Given the strengths of the European example, Washington might find the
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
that suit Western commercial interests, destroy domestic economies, impoverish the vast majority and further push borrowing nations into the abyss of debt.’ The post-war ‘Washington consensus’, and the puppet institutions it created—the World Bank, IMF and WTO—were continuing the work of Fillmore and Perry with strings-attached loans, ‘structural
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