Michael, please cool it on the "redbaiting."
I never heard that about Duesenberry. Could you point us to more?
I think that quite a few of the economists were hawks. I left out Clinton's
economist -- I was thinking of people at the Cabinet level -- Les Aspin, who
made his name as an opponent of defense spending.
Quite a few are elected. We can take pride in Phil Grahm, Dick Army, ...
Michael Yates wrote:
> I wonder what a person who thinks Rostow is a good economist is doing on a
> progressive economists' list (other than engage in periodic redbaiting)?
> Rostow, his brother, Lyndon Johnson, Kissinger, and many others (didn't
> another "good" economist, James Deusenberry (sp?) argue that the Vietnam war
> was good because it was speeding up urbanization, one of the signs of
> development?) have blood on their hands, and lots of it. Rostow's stage
> theory of development is, in my view, a piece of crap, and that is how I
> would characterize him too.
>
> Michael Yates
>
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