The Neoliberal Policy Paradigm and the Great Recession
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An earlier draft of this paper was presented at theAFEE/ASSA “Panel, Policy Implications of the Great Recession” in Chicago in January, 2012 and at Trinity College in Dublin in April, 2012. I am grateful for the comments of the discussant former Brazilian finance minister Louis Carlos Bresser Pereira, members of the audience and fellow panelists Robert Wade, Nina Shapiro, Malcolm Sawyer, and Will Milberg. I am also indebted to the excellent comments and questions of the audience at the seminar presented at Trinity College, Dublin and from the conversation and exchange with the honorable President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins who attended the lecture. The Neoliberal Policy Paradigm and the Great Recession
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