Just a Thought…
I believe that the cleverest thing the democratic forces can do when and if they come to power is to invite the topnotch economists – like Solidarity did when they got Lipton and Sachs on the board, and like Saakashvili is doing now, having gotten Mart Laar to be his economic advisor. That is surely a very clever move.
One of the reasons why the Belarusian opposition fails is because they listen but fail to hear what intellectuals say. Had they taken the analysts’ advice more seriously, maybe we would’ve had somebody else running the country these days.
