CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue interrogates the power and the persistence of the concept of economic miracle. Originally associated with the seemingly miraculous postwar recoveries of Germany and Japan, the economic miracle has become a fixture in economic policy-making, especially in the global south where the longing for a miraculous economic transformation has served as a justification for repressive regimes and intensified inequality. Roundtable Miracles and Mirages: Quinn Slobodian tracks the globalization of the miracle concept; Franco Barchiesi discusses how colonial tropes of Blackness produce distinct meanings for economic miracles in […]
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