Clerisy
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Despite the Asian and Russian fiascos, the general view among the international financial
clerisy
is that the IMF needs more, not fewer functions.
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To be sure, every modern society needs a thoughtful
clerisy.
As the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey has noted, while the bourgeoisie provides the
clerisy
with a living, in times of crisis, the
clerisy
tends to promote anti-bourgeois fantasies, from nationalism to communism.
Home rule has been highly profitable for the Catalan clerisy, as it has subsidized the diffusion of all sorts of beliefs, such as that Catalonia enjoyed a glorious past before being “conquered” by Spain.
Decades of control over education and culture budgets have produced a formidable clerisy, including legions of political apparatchiks, civil servants, writers, academics, teachers, NGO workers, journalists, and TV producers, among many others.
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