Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance and Development Strategies
Patrick Bond · Paul Clooney
Feb 2011 · SCB Distributors
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With the world’s attention fixed on the travails of leading global economies due to a still unfolding financial crisis
of gigantic proportions, there has been a studied silence on the fate of the third world as the malaise
increasingly impacts it. This silence is particularly disturbing because questions of potential pitfalls in the
neoliberal policy package, which the third world (unlike Western Europe and Japan) was largely forced to adopt,
were never countenanced. as One third world state after another discovered that international institutions were in
effect hostile to their governments if they chose alternative developmental models or otherwise resisted the
neoliberal triage of liberalization, privatization and deregulation.
This collection is a tour de force, effectively countering not only the neoliberal ideology of development as a
whole but the marginalizing within today’s mainstream crisis discourse of any discussion of the monstrous
misallocation of global resources wrought by the so-called “Washington Consensus” and the suffering and
destruction it has wreaked on third world peoples and economies.
This edited volume is intended as both a textbook for introductory classes in global development or area studies
and as a conduit for advanced students, policymakers, NGO activists and an educated readership to gain
knowledge about the socio-economic conditions existing across much of the world we live in, and the policies
that brought them about. The specially commissioned and peer reviewed chapters are written by experts in the
fields of economics, politics, sociology and international studies. Chapter authors hail from around the world
including: Brazil, Mexico, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, South Korea and Thailand.
The countries/regions’ neoliberal experience and potential futures covered in this book are: Brazil, China, Cuba,
Egypt, Mexico, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam), South Africa, South Korea, Syria, Thailand and
Venezuela.
of gigantic proportions, there has been a studied silence on the fate of the third world as the malaise
increasingly impacts it. This silence is particularly disturbing because questions of potential pitfalls in the
neoliberal policy package, which the third world (unlike Western Europe and Japan) was largely forced to adopt,
were never countenanced. as One third world state after another discovered that international institutions were in
effect hostile to their governments if they chose alternative developmental models or otherwise resisted the
neoliberal triage of liberalization, privatization and deregulation.
This collection is a tour de force, effectively countering not only the neoliberal ideology of development as a
whole but the marginalizing within today’s mainstream crisis discourse of any discussion of the monstrous
misallocation of global resources wrought by the so-called “Washington Consensus” and the suffering and
destruction it has wreaked on third world peoples and economies.
This edited volume is intended as both a textbook for introductory classes in global development or area studies
and as a conduit for advanced students, policymakers, NGO activists and an educated readership to gain
knowledge about the socio-economic conditions existing across much of the world we live in, and the policies
that brought them about. The specially commissioned and peer reviewed chapters are written by experts in the
fields of economics, politics, sociology and international studies. Chapter authors hail from around the world
including: Brazil, Mexico, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, South Korea and Thailand.
The countries/regions’ neoliberal experience and potential futures covered in this book are: Brazil, China, Cuba,
Egypt, Mexico, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam), South Africa, South Korea, Syria, Thailand and
Venezuela.
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