I interviewed a senior executive in Slovenian banking a number of years
ago and asked him how he explained the success of Slovenia's
macroeconomic policies in the latter half of the 1990s. He replied, "We
didn't take any of the advice of western economists."
Paul Phillips
Robert Scott Gassler wrote:
I recall Kenneth Boulding said the latter.
At 18:19 16/03/2006, you wrote:
Was it Galbraith who said that the Japanese economy grew because the
non-marxist economists were purged after WWII and the Austrian economy
grew only after its "Austrian" economists emigrated?
> On 3/16/06, Julio Huato wrote:
> > Michael Lebowitz once told me that,
> > with exceptions he had a hard time naming, there are virtually no
> > economists on the side of the revolution. This seems to me like
a big
> > loss that makes it harder for the revolution to carry out its tasks.
>
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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