My take away from this thread is that a ton of "neoliberal orthodoxy" is just economists trying to explain policy decisions as being like forces of nature, out of the hands of government, and China proving that a government can totally do something different if it actually wants to.
So much of their field is devoted to trying to explain how economic activity is actually not due to the labour theory of value and things have value due to like...wizards casting spells to make them valuable or something.
My take away from this thread is that a ton of "neoliberal orthodoxy" is just economists trying to explain policy decisions as being like forces of nature, out of the hands of government, and China proving that a government can totally do something different if it actually wants to.
So much of their field is devoted to trying to explain how economic activity is actually not due to the labour theory of value and things have value due to like...wizards casting spells to make them valuable or something.