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| AUTHOR: | Liisa North, John D. Cameron |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Kumarian Press |
| ISBN: | 156549170X |
| TYPE: | Development - Economic Development, Ecuador, International - Economics, International Relations - General, Latin America, Non-governmental organizations, Political Science, Politics - Current Events, Politics/International Relations, Rural development, Structural adjustment (Economi, Structural adjustment (Economic policy) |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Dreadful policies in sharp focus The market, like fire, makes a good servant but a poor master. When put to socially useful work by the forces of democracy in an open society, it can be wonderfully creative. When allowed to run wild, especially in settings of historically polarized asset distributions, it can be immensely destructive. This book surveys the burned-over landscape left behind when the ideologues of the free market turn loose the fire under conditions where the forces of democracy are much too weak to keep it under effective social control.
The discussion focuses largely on one country, Ecuador, and pays special attention to the ways in which the economic and social fabric of its rural areas has been ever more heavily damaged in recent years. Yet the book's message is far more general. It develops a theoretical framework that is broadly applicable to most of the Third World and offers specific case studies that illustrate conditions rampant there. The book also spells out the huge political task of building an effective democracy that can tame the market and bring to the fore its creative side. The most important, and most difficult, political challenges pertain to development in the countryside, especially the creation of rural purchasing power. Progress is today jeopardized by the pyromaniacs of the free market ensconced in the international economic institutions and their academic infrastructures. Meanwhile, the flames are rising over the world's poorest rural areas.