The Global South Is The Guinea Pig of Humanity’s Worst Ideas
Only its people can remove the iron-clad shackles.
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist
Those words were by John Maynard Keynes, Britain’s preeminent economist of the first half of the 20th century.
Nearly 80 years since his demise, his influence remains just as powerful today as it was when he had the ears of Prime Ministers and Presidents across the Western hemisphere.
Ideas are the very basis of our existence and without it, we would not enjoy some of the most significant breakthroughs of modern life.
But there’s also a dark side to this phenomenon too.
For ideas to become fully functional, sacrifices have to be made and tests have to be conducted and guinea pigs are usually the objects of choice.
And this is especially true for nation-states.
When Milton Friedman and other influential economists of the school of Chicago began to strategize on how to roll out their destructive…