It would seem, from news reports, they are ...hostile... to the IMF
World Bank arrangements, at least as currently implemented.
Only one citation @ google for Ricardo Patino, more for Alberto Acosta:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Ricardo+Patino%22+ecuador&btnG=Search
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Alberto+Acosta%22+ecuador&btnG=Search
A cite, of sorts...
<http://www.jubileeresearch.org/analysis/articles/Acost_dollarisation_Eng.htm>
The false dilemma of dollarization
By Alberto Acosta
Nueva Sociedad, No. 172, March/April 2001
" When one country is invited to unite with another, the ignorant,
star-struck politician may accept in haste; the young, beloved of fine
ideas, may celebrate, and the venal or mad politician may view it as a
favour, and glorify it in servile speech. However, he who feels deep
concern for his country, and is cautious and vigilant, need
investigate the natures both of the people extending the invitation
and of that receiving it, and state, whether by reason of their
backgrounds and shared customs they are pre-disposed to work as one,
and whether the fearsome aspects of the former are likely to grow in
the union it seeks, and endanger the latter. He must enquire as to the
political forces of the people extending the invitation, and the
interests at that moment of its parties and men, and any man who
reaches a decision without such an investigation, who desires union
without knowledge, who recommends it in empty speech or because he is
dazzled, or who defends it out of scant feeling for his native land,
will damage the Americas".
On 11/28/06, michael a. lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 00:07 28/11/2006, Paul wrote:
>Correa is a mostly a product of the Catholic left, and studied at
>the Catholic university in Louvain Belgium. He did his PhD work in
>economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under
>Werner Baer (whom I associate with Furtado of Brazil and with the
>Journal "World Development").
>
>As the article noted, two more economics professors will be his key
>cabinet members: one studied at UNAM and the other was often
>published by various anti-globalization movements.
Do you (or anyone else)know any more about Patino and Acosta?
michael
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