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Fantasy Over, Lab Experiments Don’t Work

The IMF and World Bank were designed to promote the principles of capitalist economies by protecting them against socialist and communist management. They became laboratories for economy policy experiments isolated from reality. It didn't work, and it is time to break up the fantasy.

Posted to Ali Ettefagh at PostGlobal on April 15, 2007 9:21 AM


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