Clayton A. Sweeney, Jr., Author at Caracas Chronicles

Clayton A. Sweeney, Jr.

Retired lawyer, Schumpeterian, student of socialism. Smarter than he is pretty, but working on that.

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The Ideological Necessities That Turned into Collective Punishment

The Left continues touting the paper in which Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs claim that 2017’s lending sanctions killed 40,000 people, when in fact, it was ideologically constrained decisions that caused the humanitarian emergency.

Clayton A. Sweeney, Jr. June 10, 2019

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