Central Asia's Neoliberal Tragedy
"In the mid-1980s, #Soviet officials saw a need to open up their economy in hope of achieving Western-style innovation and productivity. That was the decade in which Margaret #Thatcher and Ronald #Reagan were sponsoring the #neoliberal pro-financial policies that have polarized the U.S., British and other #economies and loaded them down with rentieroverhead."
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/10/central-asias-neoliberal-tragedy.html