This just in: IMF advocates for more active government in post-pandemic world

The global agency, once noted for its dogmatic—and at times destructive, unbridled free-market ideology, is now an advocate of more active government and is making clear the connections between social policy, economic policy, and environmental policy for our post-pandemic world.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured Nov. 23, 2020, on the Hill. In preparing her first budget, she would be well-served by reading the latest advice coming out of the International Monetary Fund, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 12, 2021

TORONTO—Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, in preparing her first budget, would be well-served by reading the latest advice coming out of the International Monetary Fund. The global agency, once noted for its dogmatic—and at times destructive–unbridled free market ideology, is now an advocate...

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