Successive post-war administrations, dazzled by the resurgence of Germany's post-war "social-market economy", dabbled with corporatist support for key industries and even companies (see article).
Tunisia's successive post-revolutionary governments have failed more drastically when it comes to the issues of freedom and dignity, even though Tunisia boasts one of the more progressive constitutions in the world, adopted on 26 January 2014.
No wonder the successive post-revolutionary governments have routinely pointed to the catastrophic turmoil in neighbouring Libya, not to mention the wars in Syria and Yemen, to distract from their leadership failures.
In fact, the Union rubs along the way it does because successive post-colonial British governments, whatever follies they have perpetrated abroad, have been domestically authoritarian only in their imposition of mandatory tolerance towards minoritarian sensibilities.
Home to most of the country's Muslims, over 5% of the population, the area resisted absorption either by colonial rulers from Spain and America or by successive post-independence governments in Manila.
Then, after the regime was toppled and he became defence, then finance, minister in successive post-Saddam governments, he had an inside seat as the whole thing unravelled.Others have chronicled what went wrong.
And if Egypt's $38.8bn debt wasn't burdensome enough, successive post-revolution governments continue to hold talks with the IMF in the hope of securing a $4.8bn loan, whose approval would require further "structural adjustments" towards export crops, such as cut flowers, for European markets.
It's a cheap shot to blame Jamaica's economic malaise entirely on the evil white bogeyman when successive post-independence administrations have overseen an economy with annual growth of less than 1% for the past four decades and a currency in freefall.
And the Scarlets held on for their third successive post-Christmas win.
