01155pab a2200133 454500008004000000100001700040245006300057260000900120300001300129362000800142520081000150650001900960773004200979180718b2000   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMeurs, Mieke  aAre markets like mushrooms? and other neoliberal quandries  c2000  ap.461-69  aSep  aThe neoliberal Washington consensus dominated global policy making over the 1980s. Fundamental to this consensus were three theoretical and ideological tenets: that privatization and markets are a natural order and that this order is best achieved if the state economic role is limited. I argue that private property and markets simply cannot be established as neoliberals propose, nor can the state be so easily curtailed. To support this argument, I will draw briefly on examples from the "transition economies." I argue that a more historical understanding of the nature of markets, property, and diverse forms of social organization will allow policy makers to more accurately use these institutions to achieve desired ends. This does not resolve the question of how to define those ends. - Reproduced  aMarket economy  aReview of Radical Political Economics