Re: [Pen-l] Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the article at
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21584, Kim Scipes
writes that >The case of the United States is particularly useful to
examine because its elites have projected themselves as "first among
equals" of the globalization project (Bello, 2006), and it is the
place of the Global North where the neo-liberal project has been
pursued most resolutely and has advanced the farthest.<

is this true? my impression is that the neoliberal project has been
pursued most resolutely where resistance to it has been weakest.  For
example, the World Bank and the IMF have been running roughshod over
sub-Saharan Africa for decades. It's Bolivia, not the U.S., where the
privatization of water supplies was tried.

(Of course, it _has_ been privatized in the US in the sense that
marketeers convinced many of us to buy bottled water using scares
about pollution in the public water supply. But we can still drink
from the tap with minimal cost.)
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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