Comments on: Done deal http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2007/04/02/done-deal/ Thoughts on Korea, northeast Asia, history and other things Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:32:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: kotaji http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2007/04/02/done-deal/#comment-368 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:05:37 +0100 http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2007/04/02/done-deal/#comment-368 This puzzles me a bit too. I asked <a href="http://twokoreas.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Jamie</a> pretty much the same question a while back, and now of course, I can't remember what his answer was... goddamnit. My own feeling is that we need to remember how narrowminded the ruling classes of the world are - their strategic vision doesn't really move beyond the latest current fashionable thinking about how capitalism should be run, which of course means neoliberalism at the moment. There are people like Chang Ha-joon who try to persuade them otherwise and must get the ear of policymakers now and then, but the overwhelming 'common sense' out there in the land of ruling class 'thought' (ie think tanks, ministries, civil services, university economics and business depts) is undoubtedly neoliberal. So I guess once you accept that there's no alternative to neoliberalism, the best option is to get in there early. This puzzles me a bit too. I asked Jamie pretty much the same question a while back, and now of course, I can’t remember what his answer was… goddamnit.

My own feeling is that we need to remember how narrowminded the ruling classes of the world are - their strategic vision doesn’t really move beyond the latest current fashionable thinking about how capitalism should be run, which of course means neoliberalism at the moment. There are people like Chang Ha-joon who try to persuade them otherwise and must get the ear of policymakers now and then, but the overwhelming ‘common sense’ out there in the land of ruling class ‘thought’ (ie think tanks, ministries, civil services, university economics and business depts) is undoubtedly neoliberal. So I guess once you accept that there’s no alternative to neoliberalism, the best option is to get in there early.

]]> by: trachys http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2007/04/02/done-deal/#comment-367 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:52:04 +0100 http://kotaji.blogsome.com/2007/04/02/done-deal/#comment-367 Assuming for a second that Roh isn't just another lackey (big assumption, I know), what was his motivation? Was he informed that an FTA was inevitable, and it was decided that an agreement under his watch would be better than one signed under a Hannara president? Assuming for a second that Roh isn’t just another lackey (big assumption, I know), what was his motivation? Was he informed that an FTA was inevitable, and it was decided that an agreement under his watch would be better than one signed under a Hannara president?

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