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I've said it before - liberalisation is a jobs programme for investment bankers and rightwing politicians/pundits.

Yes it's ideological, but yes there is a constituency - the traders, the providers of hedging instruments, the M&A bankers and the strategy consultants that can offer plans to conquer other markets by purchase or by other means.

And the Brits trying to break EDF or E.On.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Oct 7th, 2007 at 04:25:33 PM EST
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I think answering the 'Who benefits?' question has the power to make some of the biggest changes to these narratives.

They're only convincing for as long as they can appear to be value neutral. Once they're understood to be  inherently biased and partial, they lose a lot of their persuasive power.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Oct 7th, 2007 at 07:47:27 PM EST
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Totally agree.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Oct 8th, 2007 at 05:08:19 AM EST
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