This is a very interesting paper and one which an organisation such as PASCAL can learn from. On the European side of the pond we tend to get the impession that the Chicago school of Neo- liberalism has absolute power in the world of economics and it's refreshing to read of alternatives, especially from the land of the tea party.  Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine) has been very eloquent in pointing out the dangers of neoliberalism while Katie Willis (Theories and practice of Development) points out that the experiments of the 80s have had such disastrous consequences on poverty, social breakdown and fiscal crisis that even the World Bank was forced to change its focus. But now we seem to be back to the dry as a bone ideology of Friedman and this total lack of flexibility is infecting the whole of the Western world. Surely there must be a viable alternative that lies somewhere between or beyond Keynes and Friedman. I may be an illiterate on economic theory and practice but it seems to me to be the right time to start a meaningful debate on the alternatives before the riots in England last week become the norm the whole world over. We might also link it to the social development message of a 'Learning Region'