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Latvia’s Economic Disaster Heralded as a Neoliberal “Success Story”: A Model for Europe and the US?

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Jeffrey Sommers is visiting faculty at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He is an Associate Professor of Political Economy & Public Policy at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.
The authors have advised Latvian politicians and government officials up to the Prime Minister level.  Both have published extensively in the Latvian press.  Additionally, they have written for The Financial Times, The Guardian, and several other text, radio, and television media. Sommers is co-editor and author with Charles Woolfson for the forthcoming Routledge Press volume, The Contradictions of Austerity:  The Socio-Economic Costs of the Neoliberal Baltic Model, of which Hudson has a contributing chapter.

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