… is from page 39 of Razeen Sally’s superb 2008 book, New Frontiers in Free Trade: Globalization’s Future and Asia’s Rising Role:
It is always difficult to gauge the influence of ideas (or ideology) in policy. But practical observation teaches us that the prevailing climate of ideas, interacting with interests and events, can entrench or sway this or that set of policies.


It is always difficult to gauge the influence of ideas (or ideology) in policy. But practical observation teaches us that the prevailing climate of ideas, interacting with interests and events, can entrench or sway this or that set of policies.
