On Wed, 22 Jun 1994, Ben Crow wrote:
> 1 Alternatives to Capitalism and Socialism
> Doug's question, what is the alternative to Bank proposals, is a
> reasonable one, but it is very large. The Bank, IMF, USAID and
> others push variants of capitalism. The most coherent alternative
> is sociali
I haven't read the description closely, enough to have an opinion yet, but I'm
curious about what "PROUT" stands for, and what its history is, etc. Does
anyone know?
David
On Fri, 10 Jun 1994, Ben Crow wrote:
> There are at least two problems with the International Rivers Network/Faust
> position:
>
> 1) as P. Le Prestre points out, it would be unwise to generalize from a
> few cases. In one of his posts, David Faust, uses only the case of the
> Narmada scheme
I'm not sure exactly what the point of Anthony D'Costa is, but it is
important to note that in the case of the Narmada and other big dams in
India, the issue is not of whether or not to do something to feed more
people, since the small scale alternatives would do that. In the case of
the Narmada
On Fri, 10 Jun 1994, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Ben Crow makes some very good points. The distinction between the enviros
> and the forces of productivity is important - to oversimplify a bit, it's
> what separates the greens from the reds. I see in a lot of green critique
> an unexamined nostalg
Since Ben Crow referred to an argument on another list about a California
organization opposing the Narmada dam, I think it is appropriate to post
the charge and the response from Patrick McCully of International Rivers
Network.
cheers
David Faust
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On Thu, 9 Jun 1994, Ben Crow wrote:
> Andrew Sessions has posted the 'Manibeli Declaration', a proposal from the
> International Rivers Network, of Berkeley CA, that there be a
> moratorium on World Bank funding of large dams.
>
> Whilst I think the declaration makes several useful points ab
There is an interesting book out that extends the analysis of Sraffa,
showing how fundamental economic propositions must be modified once space
is included in the analysis. The reference is as follows:
Sheppard, Eric and Trevor J. Barnes. 1990. The Capitalist Space Economy.
London & Boston:
