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Challenging the Orthodoxies (Development Studies) - Hardcover

 
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Synopsis

This work offers an interdisciplinary critique of the new economic orthodoxy as represented by the Washington Consensus. The originator of the term, John Williamson, updates his original thesis which is then discussed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars that includes economists, environmentalists, political scientists, institutionalists, sociologists and a philosopher. The papers span a range of viewpoints, which includes sympathetic modifications to the consensus as well as strong rejections of it.

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