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...call by some Bush aides for free-market aid to the poor...
Although it is unclear whether the allegeddiscussions of tuition and salary plans wereillegal, they would allow schools to make changesthat could deny students and faculty the effectsof free-market competition...
Washington, despite its free-market rhetoric, spends about $8 billion a year to underwrite American farmers. Trade barriers further boost farm income. Quotas keep cheaper foreign sugar, for example, out of U.S. supermarkets, which cost American consumers $1.9 billion in 1987. But these programs would continue almost untouched by the Dunkel proposal, which gives credit for existing U.S. efforts to scale back subsidies...
...Bretton Woods monetary conference in 1944. But last week's move has immediate practical implications as well. It will trigger the release of much of the $24 billion in aid that has been pledged by the major industrialized nations to help the former Soviets convert to a free-market economy...
Something similar could happen elsewhere, and not only in Latin America. Throughout the former Soviet bloc, the new leaders are asking their citizens to pay for the sins of the old regime; they are embarked on free-market reforms that entail massive hardships in the short and middle run. And they are doing all this without the benefit of a strong state. For decades, the Soviet-style state was identified with a defunct ideology and with corrupt, repressive institutions, notably the Communist Party. Now those institutions have self-destructed, opening the way for both freedom and its dark underside, which...