Louis Proyect wrote: "The authors of the reviewed book and Diamond do have one thing very much in common; they all discount the role of colonialism."
Matias Vernengo offers some corroboration in his posting "Why economists fail": http://triplecrisis.com/the-wealth-of-nations-and-the-poverty-of-economics/ with comments at: http://nakedkeynesianism.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-economists-fail.html?showComment=1336654459289#c7184205212286003648 On 7/27/2012 9:42 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > Diamond wrote a somewhat hostile review of their book "Why Nations > Fail" in the NYR in May. I offered my own opinion on another book > of theirs that is online: > > http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/why-do-nations-fail-hint-it-starts-with-col-and-ends-with-ism/ > > The latest NYR has an exchange between both sides: > > http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/aug/16/why-nations-fail/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
