Targets of opportunity in two landscapes of financial globalization

摘要

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back... But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. (Key-nes, 1936) Most economists... have been enlisted in the causes of the powerful, both in the sense that they provide much of the intellectual architecture through which certain aspects of the world are framed as inevitable and in the sense that they serve as some of its chief functionaries.