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Post-war economies and the New York dissensus

Post-war economies and the New York dissensus We will follow the owner of the money and the owner of labour-power into the hidden foci of production, crossing the threshold of the portal above which is written, ‘No admittance except on business’. Karl Marx, Das Kapital The framing of post-conflict political economy issues for war-torn societies has closely followed developmentalist models for promoting macroeconomic discipline, private business and global integration. Although the Washington consensus that informed early transformation projects has been declared dead and replaced by more nuanced approaches to foster poverty reduction and social protection, this reformist consensus was disrupted by the United States at the UN New York summit of September 2005. Besides, the reformist assumption remained within the terms of debate and practice that springs from epistemologies of political economy grounded in the telos of disciplinary liberal capitalism. This is evidenced, with reference to peacebuilding in Bosnia, by the silence cultivated around job creation and labour protection. An abridged version of this article was delivered as the annual Folke Bernadotte Lecture, for the United Nations association at the Royal United Services Institute, 31 May 2006 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png "Conflict, Security & Development" Taylor & Francis

Post-war economies and the New York dissensus

Pugh, Michael
"Conflict, Security & Development" , Volume 6 (3): 21 – Oct 1, 2006
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We will follow the owner of the money and the owner of labour-power into the hidden foci of production, crossing the threshold of the portal above which is written, ‘No admittance except on business’. Karl Marx, Das Kapital The framing of post-conflict political economy issues for war-torn societies has closely followed developmentalist models for promoting macroeconomic discipline, private business and global integration. Although the Washington consensus that informed early transformation projects has been declared dead and replaced by more nuanced approaches to foster poverty reduction and social protection, this reformist consensus was disrupted by the United States at the UN New York summit of September 2005. Besides, the reformist assumption remained within the terms of debate and practice that springs from epistemologies of political economy grounded in the telos of disciplinary liberal capitalism. This is evidenced, with reference to peacebuilding in Bosnia, by the silence cultivated around job creation and labour protection. An abridged version of this article was delivered as the annual Folke Bernadotte Lecture, for the United Nations association at the Royal United Services Institute, 31 May 2006

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