>This is why it is so frustrating to stay with this list;
>seeing continuously hopes for the future based on
>totally false assumptions.
>
>The state and it's institutions are there
>to defend the economic and thus social/cultural
>power of the ruling class.
>
>And at the moment the ruling class i
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From: pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: October 26, 1998 3:37 PM
Subject: FW: The chronic dominance of resolute stupidity
>
>I sent this out on friday night, and it seemed to drop into a
"In short, how many people have to die before the ruling
paradigm is beaten back and we are rid of it once and for all?"
-- Susan George
Faith and Credit: The World Bank's Secular Empire
There are no societies without rel
At 4:30 PM -1000 10/26/98, Jay Hanson wrote:
>Here are a few choice quotes from one of
>our all-time favorite economic poster-boys, that modern-day Douglas
>MacArthur: Larry Summers:
>
>
>"The laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. There's only one
>set of laws and they work every
Hi, Janet,
I enjoyed your erudite forward on the IMF and World Bank, but must pick
a bone with respect to its conclusion:
>The IMF and the World Bank are the most logical intermediaries -- but
>under
>new management. The IMF must get back to objectively policing the
>international monetary syst
>
> Adam Smith wrote TWO books- one of these is infamous Wealth of Nations
> and the other, neglected child is the Theory of Moral Sentiments. In
> other words, smith saw the need for capitalism to be tempered by
> responsibility.
>
Surely the less responsible capitalist makes more profit,
thus
This is why it is so frustrating to stay with this list;
seeing continuously hopes for the future based on
totally false assumptions.
The state and it's institutions are there
to defend the economic and thus social/cultural
power of the ruling class. I know it sounds like
a dogma - nontheless i
