michael pugliese wrote: > Yesterday on NPR it was said that 75,000 textile jobs have >been lost in the last yr.
lost due to national and global recession? loss of jobs that would have been added if not for recession? lost due to automation? lost to specifically defensive automation in the face of imports? lost due to surge of imports? how was this number arrived at? what is it an estimate of? is it reliable? why we should we be concerned only with job loss in one sector, not net job gain or loss due to globalization or regional markets (i.e., why not include jobs gained directly and indirectly from capital inflow, including foreign direct investment; jobs gained from exports)? why not estimate how successful the 'North' has been in slowing down the loss of industries in which they have no comparative advantage as well as the human consequences that this had on poor countries? Michael, I remember when you were sending around *very* low estimates of the human destruction wrought by the us sanctions on iraq, while suggesting that they were authoritative because some person with impeccable leftist credentials had made them. It did not seem to me to be a very credible way of proceeding. Rakesh
