Doug Henwood wrote:
The Euro central bank makes the Fed look like a model of accountability.
Maastricht specifies that the president of the ECB and its governing board
must be restricted to "persons of recognized standing and professional
experience in monetary or banking matters," language
Some quick remarks for the discussion about the EMU on the list.
1) You can find - a bit schematically - two very different types of
criticisms of the euro-project in the many European countries,
varying in strength:
i) a left critique of the social consequences, the undemocratic
character
Dear Pen-l-lers
A Dutch weekly asks me to write a portrait (profile) of Greenspan.
Suggestions for books/articles about the man (I don't suppose
there exists a biography), his background, policies, influence, etc.
are therefore very much appreciated. I don't suppose other
subscribers to the
Jim Divine wrote:
Third, it suggests that globalization has played a big role, even if we
don't see globalization as either natural or the whole story. To Dornbusch
I would add that intranational competition has increased along with
international competition, due to anti-trust, deregulation,
I remember a good book by Michael Lowy, The politics of combined and
uneven development, published in 1981 by Verso.
Robert Went
Does anybody on pen-l know of any good references on (or special insight
into) the subject of the Marxian theory of "uneven and combined
development." I am
