martial law economy
Marcos Jr Carries on Neoliberal Arc Started by His Dictator Father
September 20, 2023
After Marcos, cronyism was craftly used to justify even greater liberalization, privatization and deregulation during the administrations that followed. Today, Marcos Jr carries on this neoliberal arc started and backed by his father’s regime.
What the Marcos Dictatorship Really Did to the Economy
September 24, 2022
The Marcos regime’s extreme cronyism and corruption is commonly blamed. However, the steady shift to neoliberal economic policies is weightier in explaining the depth of collapse in the early 1980s and the subsequent lost decades of development. The article “What the Marcos Dictatorship Really Did to the Economy” is a contribution to the Tanggol Kasaysayan […]
