ECONOMICS AND CHINA Eyes averted from the dragon in the marketplace*

Regular readers of News Weekly will be familiar with the term “Washington Consensus”. Patrick J. Byrne and I have written extensively about its malevolent influence on the Australian economy.
The Washington Consensus was conceived by a combination of committed free market economists endorsing the views of the U.S. Treasury, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank about how world economic growth could be maximised.
Fundamentals of the Washington Consensus we…

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