Neo-liberalism and East Asia: Resisting the Washington Consensus
探讨新自由主义思想在东亚如何被推广和抵制，认为经济政策中的思想竞争可独立于其学术价值和实证可信度，政治利益塑造了这一过程。
This paper explores the way neoliberal ideas have been promoted and resisted in East Asia. The core argument of this paper is that the contest of ideas in economic policymaking can evolve independently of their intellectual merit and empirical credibility. Political interests shape and mediate the process. In the case of post-crisis East Asia, the notion that the political economies of the region need to be fundamentally reformed to re-ignite the 'economic miracle' of the pre-crisis era does not stem from a politically neutral, dispassionate and intellectually rigorous analyses of what went wrong in the recession-inducing 1997 financial crisis that engulfed the region. It represents an attempt to re-invent orthodoxy in the domain of economic ideas and ideology by the global policy community that in turn bears the inordinate influence of US-centric institutions.