No, it didn't. There were people prominent inside the party who had staked out neoliberal positions but they were not in charge. The best analyses of this are by Jane Kelsey. Her Economic Fundamentalism is a good place to start.
Mark 2009/8/6 Jim Devine <[email protected]> > Am I right to think that New Zealand's move to neoliberalism (and > targeting of a zero inflation rate by its Central Bank) was a result > of a bait-and-switch by its Labor Party? that is, did the LP advertise > the neoliberal "reforms" it instituted before it came into power? > -- > Jim Devine / "All science would be superfluous if the form of > appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Dr Mark Laffey Senior Lecturer Programme Convenor, MSc International Politics Department of Politics and International Studies SOAS, University of London [email protected] 0207 898 4744
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