Stiglitz/ Comment from Rudy Fichtenbaum:
by Stephen E Philion
29 November 2001 22:20 UTC
When I was in China, the Marxist economist (and translator of the
nefarious Henwood's book Wall Street I might add) Han Deqiang used quote
after quote from Stiglitz in speeches he gave to university audiences to
debunk the adoration of the WTO in Chinese academia. There was another
person he used very effectively, Bill Clinton! He would end his lectures
with a quote from Clinton in a speech to congress advising quick passage
of the China's entry to WTO based on the one sided character of
sacrafices called for in the deal, i.e. only China would have to make
significant decreases in tarrifs, etc.
Han, btw, is really the closest thing China has to a Noam Chomsky. He goes
around to campuses and delivers lectures that simply use the words of
mainstream economists against the mythologies of neo-liberalism...
CB: From Ricardo something was gotten for the fight. Marx quotes Benjamin Franklin
favoably in _Capital_. From the bourgeois economist Hobson and others like, Lenin
culled the kernel of his concept of imperialism. From whathisname came creative
destruction. From Eisenhower, who must have known military Keynesianism, the left got
the concept of the military-industrial complex.
If Stiglitz wants to show out , lets not leave him hanging.
