Brad, that's a pretty restricted set of choices. Assembling staplers might
not be so dangerous, but most of the workers there sit in a toxic stew.
Would it be better to provide for the corn farmers with credit, with the
same access to water that the large farmers get, and with the same sort of
cultural amenities available in cities -- maybe by setting up colleges in
the countryside instead of in cities?
Brad De Long wrote:
> > >Yesterday the United States! Today the OECD! Tomorrow the World! (It
> >>ain't Utopia, but it's the only game in town--unless you think, like
> >>Lars-Erik Neilsen in the _New York Review of Books_, that Mexicans
> >>ain't fit to assemble staplers and should go back to the subsistence
> >>agriculture that they came from)
> >
> >So those are the only choices? Mexicans should assemble staplers for
> >us, instead of feeding, clothing, housing, and educating themselves?
> >If this is neoliberalism, then it sounds like imperialism to me.
> >
> >Doug
>
> Like we exploit Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, all of which grew
> rapidly by exporting light industrial products?
>
> Between assembling staplers for export and growing corn in
> unirrigated Mexican soil, I'll take assembling staplers for 50 pesos,
> Alex...
>
> Brad DeLong
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