Santiago wrote:
Dear Mr. Proyect,
I came across your comment about a marxist explanation
about my country's collapse and I found it really
interesting. While studing for my degree in
International Trade I had the luck to have professors
of marxist thinking.
Santiago, I hope you don't mind if I
Doug writes:
I'd say the Empire thesis has some life in it yet.
I asked:
in 25 words or less, how would you summarize the Empire thesis?
Doug replies:
What's relevant here is that imperial power is far more dispersed and
polycentric than the old-fashioned Washington/Hollywood/Wall Street
Look, I have been gone all day. An old friend from my hometown visited,
who is writing a book on colleges. I get back and see nastiness. With
several hundred e-mails, I look at them quickly and relatively randomly.
So when I try to give a cease and decist order, the post to which it is
attached
[was: RE: [PEN-L] The Road to Serfdom]
Marty writes:Well there is a lot surrounding the issue but I would say first of all
that the left should be careful to endorse a strategy of growth that
promotes exports in one country at the expense of worker well-being in
others. So, rather than just see
Devine, James wrote:
in addition, China represents an important force (along with the
World Bank, the IMF, and the US Treasury) encouraging the world-wide
process of competitive austerity (outside of the US, the UK, and a
few others). By pushing down world wage levels, China is encouraging
the
I think that there are different levels of specificity in answers. It is
easy to say that a more equitable tax system or less military spending
would make the economy work better. It is less easy to say what Jamaica,
to use your example, should do, when its options are far less open.
Clinton
do you think that writing a book can have that big an effect?
Whether or not a book has a big effect, depends I think on numerous
factors, and a publisher would affirm this:
- its content and form
- who wrote it
- the life and doings of the author
- the specific context it is written in, or
