In its critique of neoliberalism, Blond was breaking with the dominant Tory
economic paradigm of the last thirty years, marrying traditional social conservatism and criticism of the
state with an attack on untrammelled free markets.
The Committee on
Economic Development and Labor includes: · Haejin Baek, President, Barclays Structured Finance · Ruben Diaz, Jr., Bronx Borough President · Jamie Dinan, C.E.O. York Capital · Garry Douglas, Plattsburgh Chamber of Commerce · Hazel Dukes, President, NAACP New York · Rob Dyson, Chairman and C.E.O., The Dyson - Kissner - Moran Corp.; President, Dyson Foundation · James Francis, Founder and C.E.O.,
Paradigm Asset Management; Member, NYC Partnership · Barbarlee Diamonstein - Spielvogel · Jim Gerace, President, New York Region, Verizon · Barry Gosin, C.E.O., Newmark Knight Franks; Partnership for NYC Board · Hakeem Jeffries, New York
State Assembly · John Johnson, President, Watertown Daily Times · Brian Kolb, Minority Leader, New York
State Assembly \ · Kevin Law, Long Island Association · John Liu, New York City Comptroller · Edward Mangano, Nassau County Executive · Howard Milstein, C.E.O., N.Y. Private Bank & Trust and Emigrant Bank · Dean Norton, President, Farm Bureau · Peter Rivera, New York
State Assembly · Van B. Robinson, President, Syracuse Common Council · Lisa Rosenblum Senior Vice President, Cablevision.
The consensus around this «education for
economic growth»
paradigm, to use language popularized by
state Gov. Jim Hunt, was particularly sustained in North Carolina, though like - minded efforts in other southern
states shaped national education politics in the 1980s and 1990s.