Challenging the Orthodoxies

• Author(s): Richard M. Auty, John Toye,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 250
• ISBN_10: 1349139920
  ISBN_13: 9781349139927
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Development / General , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Economy , Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development , Business & Economics / Economics / General , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy ,

Description:... This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary critique of the new economic orthodoxy as represented by the Washington Consensus. The originator of the term, John Williamson, updates his original thesis which is then discussed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars that includes economists, environmentalists, political scientists, institutionalists, sociologists and a philosopher. The papers span a range of viewpoints which includes sympathetic modifications to the consensus as well as strong rejections of it.