Comments on: Time-traveling Larry Summers envisions “Mumbai Consensus” http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2010/06/02/time-traveling-larry-summers-envisions-mumbai-consensus/ Tracking U.S. politics Sun, 19 May 2013 02:28:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: bhessel http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2010/06/02/time-traveling-larry-summers-envisions-mumbai-consensus/comment-page-1/#comment-410784 bhessel Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:07:51 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/?p=27497#comment-410784 Well…so far, India is doing well, but China is doing way better. Also, for a world that is going to forget the “Washington Consensus,” it seems pretty convenient that we end up with “[t]he world that the United States wants to see.” This vision sounds more like what Mr. Summers is hoping will happen - or at least, what he wants folks to think is going to happen - for than a reasonable extrapolation of what we see now. Well…so far, India is doing well, but China is doing way better.

Also, for a world that is going to forget the “Washington Consensus,” it seems pretty convenient that we end up with “[t]he world that the United States wants to see.”

This vision sounds more like what Mr. Summers is hoping will happen – or at least, what he wants folks to think is going to happen – for than a reasonable extrapolation of what we see now.

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