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It is true that the forces of global capitalism are not always benign, but nobody has yet found a better way of creating and spreading prosperity.
How long has global capitalism been around, and what has the effect of the Washington consensus been on the developing world?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 31st, 2006 at 12:46:39 PM EST
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