Paul, have you written up the milk control board experience? On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:18:11PM -0700, paul phillips wrote: > For the better part of a couple of decades I was chair of the milk > control board in Manitoba which regulated the price and, ultimately, the > supply of milk in the province and which basically eliminated all > imports. We managed to keep the price (increase) below the increase in > the index for food (dominated by imports) and had a quality standard > higher than the international while at the same time maintaining a very > stable and remunerative farm sector. In short, we outpreformed the > market -- but because we replaced the market, economists, the US and the > WTO howled for our downfall -- something that is in the process -- > another example of the race to the bottom. Yet it is another example of > localism outperforming globalism. Little of that is technologically > necessary. Rather it is financially necessary for global capital.
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
