In brief, said Williamson (1990: 18), the economic positions that Washington agreed upon in setting growth and development policies for the rest of the world (though did not necessarily follow itself—the federal government heavily subsidizes agriculture, for instance) could be summarized as “prudent macroeconomic policies, outward orientation, and free market capitalism.” He thought this group of principles represented a “sea change” in attitudes in Washington. But he also thought that this list of policies making up the Washington Consensus stemmed from classical mainstream economic theory—by “mainstream theory” Williamson meant neoclassical economics with some Keynesianism. From our perspective, the Washington Consensus is mainstream economics greatly influenced by neoliberalism, particularly in its antistate attitudes, as with deregulation, privatization, and so on.