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classical political economy Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

Wed 2008-09-03 00:00 EDT

How the Chicago Boyz Wrecked the Economy: An Interview with Michael Hudson

by Mike Whitney; "what they're trying to do is to roll back the Enlightenment, roll back the moral philosophy and social values of classical political economy and its culmination in Progressive Era legislation, as well as the New Deal institutions...So what you find to be a violation of traditional values is a re-assertion of pre-industrial, feudal values. The economy is being set back on the road to debt peonage."

Chicago Boyz Wrecked; economy; interview; Michael Hudson.