I am very busy. A had not seen Angelus' message when I reprimanded you, although I have had no reason to single him out before.
My double standard toward you is this: On the one hand, I appreciate many of the ideas and scholarship you bring to the list; yet, I cannot understand why you feel that it is necessary to provoke and insult. So, yes, I have a double standard. On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Lakshmi Rhone <[email protected]> wrote: > Again: Michael, I have to make sense why you would chastise me only and not > Angelus though Angelus positively insulted me in rather harsh terms while I > only challenged him to read carefully and argue well. You have a double > standard in regards to me. I am pretty sure I know why. > > I criticized Proyect for falsely informing us that Acemoglu and Robinson > ignore colonialism. They do not; they have a whole chapter devoted to it and > apartheid. To be sure, they disturbingly ignore in the book (though not on > their blog) US support for repressive elites in Guatemala and Mugabe Sese > Seko. But one cannot jump from that to the accusation that they ignore > colonialism. And there are good reasons to emphasize the internal class > dynamics of a society. Brenner would do the same. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
