Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Latvian Fundamentalism

By Boris Kagarlitsky
Of all the former Soviet republics, perhaps Latvia has been the most assiduous and zealous adherent to the neoliberalism economic school. The country's political elite assimilated all of the fashionable theories and popular ideas with unbridled enthusiasm and put them into practice with a speed and diligence that surprised even their Western adherents.

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