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But is that a measure of the theory's innate explanatory power, or of the political/economic forces that have made it the dominant mode of popular (and elite) consciousness?
great question.
i think it's a case of overshoot, too much of a good thing, what starts off healthy move then morphs into a sick one.
for example, 'economic development' is a no-brainer Good Thing for the very poor, and at the other end of the scale, behold the corruption and headgames of the US financial usury machine/Ponzi scams industry.
(of course madison avenue and sheer novelty are the hook, the barb comes later, when the food aid displaces local businesses, the GM seeds supplant the traditional, IMF loans cripple the economy with debt etc etc...)
'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
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