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In our staged "dialogue"--which was played out in semi-public, in front of a disturbingly obsequious audience of a hundred or so businessmen--Mahathir continued to sound a minor-key version of the conspiracy theme, insisting that capital controls were necessary to protect small countries against the evil designs of big speculators.
The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.
In the early days of the crisis, his position seemed absurd, and it was easy to make fun of him--which I did, right in Slate . But eventually it stopped being so easy to dismiss Mahathir's views.
I quickly put out an open letter to Mahathir warning that the controls should not be abused, used as a cover for ; but I know from friends in Washington that people started referring to the "Krugman-Mahathir strategy" of recovery via capital controls.
But the vindication that Mahathir probably imagined for himself--a triumphant recovery in Malaysia, while its more orthodox neighbors continued to languish--hasn't quite played out.