If Paul can get them there, I accept the challenge.
Heck, I'll drink as much as necessary and even eat only
vegetables, if that will do the trick, :-).
More seriously, although Paul didn't tell us, I think
that what he found in Slovenia is that worker managed
enterprises are doing better than ones with new "standard"
foreign-based capital management, or am I misstating your
findings, Paul? Needless to say, such results, that others
have certainly reported even if Paul did not find them,
have not made much impact on either IMF or US policymakers
pronunciamentos that continue to hand out the same old "one
size fits all" crap. The relevance of this in Yugoslavia
where a form of the old system still persists is all the
more relevant.
BTW, it appears that my effort to forward the pro-Serb
diatribe from marxism-international did not take. It was
from someone named Sendic and contained some factually
accurate discussions of what happened in WW II, as well as
some factually ridiculous claims such as that there was a
Serb majority in Kosovo until the 1950s when 200,000 Serbs
were allegedly expelled from Kosovo.
A more serious point was raised that I know nothing
about and I am curious if anybody (Paul?) does know about.
It was claimed that 23 lines of text were inserted into a
foreign aid bill in the US in November, 1990 that demanded
secession of republican governments in Yugoslavia with the
threat of facing an aid cutoff otherwise. I have never
heard of such a thing, although I do not rule out its
possibility. Sendic claims that this was all part of an
anti-Serb and anti-socialist plot by US policymakers,
although I note that apparently the Serbian media has been
full of some blatant and racist falsehoods.
Barkley Rosser
On Thu, 26 Mar 98 22:58 CST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a proposal for Barkley: We invite leaders
> from the Serbs and from Kosovo to join us in a
> restaurant in Montreal for an evening with appropriate
> amounts of wine (and in my case seafood) and we will
> both guarantee peace -- at least for as long as the
> wine and seafood lasts. Do you accept the challenge?
>
> On a more academic level, let me point out some of
> the interesting dificulties.
>
> I have been involved in a research study of the effect of
> the privatization of social capital (and the move from
> 'worker self management' to capital direct management) on
> both how workers respond (and how output responds) and on
> the effect of legislated 'co-determination' on industrial
> relations in Slovenia. We now have interviews with approx
> 120 enterprises and union officials on the 'new regime'
> representing most of the major entorprises in Slovenia.
> I have recently received an invitation to from the
> respected (and independent) 'Institute of Economic Science"
> (Institut Ekonomski Nauka) to do such a study in
> Yugoslavia (Serbia and Cerna Gora) in conjuction with
> the national trade unions. But this relates back to
> Barkeley's message -- to what extent is American policy
> kjwilling to accept accedemic research -- or to what extent
> is it willing to confine 'research' to ideologically acceptable
> constraints.?
>
--
Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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