ABSTRACT
Ever since I suggested that there was a useful measure of consensus at the end of the 1980s about the policies that Latin American countries needed to adopt in order to end the debt crisis and start building a brighter future, a vast number of consensuses have been proclaimed. Apart from my own Washington Consensus, there is the augmented Washington Consensus (with parts from which I differ profoundly), the Barcelona Agenda (which was almost called a Consensus), the Beijing Consensus, the Beijing-Seoul-Tokyo Consensus (the ‘BeST Consensus’), the Buenos Aires Consensus, the Copenhagen Consensus (though this dealt with different issues and was not aimed at replacing the Washington Consensus), the London Consensus, the post-Washington Consensus, the Santiago Consensus, the Seoul Consensus and the Singapore Consensus. Doubtless other cities have had consensuses named after them.
