Economic Growth: The Great Slowdown (1980-2000) and Recovery (2000-2010) (Thomas Weisskopf Festschrift Conference Paper)

Mark Weisbrot examines the long-term trends in global economic growth, focusing on the experience of the developing world. He identifies three broad growth trends for the developing countries: rapid growth between 1960 and 1980, the prolonged slowdown of 1980s and 1990s, and a rebound from 2000 onward. Weisbrot argues that the main force generating the global growth slowdown beginning in the 1980s was the ascendency of neoliberalism, and that China