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MisterP

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2. neoliberalism is definitely technocratic:

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 04:10 PM

Apr 2016

and it was the technocrats' unfulfilled (because impossible) promises that created the (well-sponsored) religious backlashes in America and the Mideast and collapsed Mexico into cartelandia (since the technocrats' rabble-repression forces easily took to drugrunning once the economy didn't grow for ever and ever)

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A quote on the cause of poverty from William Easterly's 'The Tyranny of Experts' [View all] Scuba Apr 2016 OP

"The emphasis on the problem of expertise makes the problem of rights worse." bemildred Apr 2016 #1

neoliberalism is definitely technocratic: MisterP Apr 2016 #2