Yes, I'll cool it, but then again, I never engaged in redbaiting. As they say, if
the shoe fits. I'll have to look up the Duesenberry thing.
Michael yates
Michael Perelman wrote:
> 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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> Michael Perelman
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> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
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