I break my promised silence to ask only one question - who does not work within ideological frameworks? S A Aiyyar, Bobby Kunhu or Murali Warrier. Sanath stands out only beacuse he is in the field when writing his "journalistic" pieces as against Mr Aiyyar. I would rather let others respond rather than this becoming a conversation between the both of us.
p.s. when i do find the time, i would respond personally Best On 04/05/2008, Murali K Warier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You dont need to read the NSS or Economic Survey of India or the annual > UNDP Human development report, just read any newspaper regularly and you > find stories of food crisis across the world post neo-liberalism. It hs > become acute especially now.. > > Again, where is the causality? Food crises and famines are nothing new in > the world, has happened long before neo-liberalism, and will happen now and > in the future. The current food crisis in part owes to huge government > subsidies for biofuels, which needless to say, is against the spirit of a > free market. It is market manipulation by government, simple. The > agricultural crisis in a large measure is due to the government's dogged > refusal to allow market forces to play in the sector. Government > intervention, good intentioned, no doubt, often makes things worse: > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/S_A_Aiyar_Govt_panic_stokes_inflation/articleshow/2929336.cms > > > Since you seem to advocate the free market, I am only asking you to > educate me on how and where it has worked and by your own argument, the onus > is on you. > > Look at any developed country - every one of them has adopted some form of > free market economy - may not be perfect, but economic freedom to a large > extent is a characteristic of them. Or look at countries that had everything > common, except the economic model - East and West Germany, North and South > Korea - and see what widely differing fates they had. > > >By the way, there are different schools of socialism and I wanted to know > which school you were referring to as "standard"? > > Lemme make it clear - by 'standard' I meant something common to all > schools. I guess economic redistribution is part of every school of > socialism. > > About Sainath - the main problem I find with him is that he tends to frame > issue is in an ideological usual suspects vs usual victims terms, in spite > of any plausible links of causality. Here is a blogger's critique of > Sainath: > http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2006/09/05/heart-alone-is-insufficient/ > > Best regards, > Murali > > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Bobby Kunhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think Afthabs post and Sainaths interview I posted here sufficiently > > counters your arguments - they do resound arguments put forward by the > > Chicago school and unfortunately unlike Friedman's presumptions the world > > is not flat - and I for one - do not want to be part of a process that > > exclude a vast majority of the population. > > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't > want to hear. > -- Bobby Kunhu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
