Max, does the EPI include this 'betrayal' in its criticism of NAFTA or is this
side letter exactly the kind of fair trade for which EPI, Sweeney and you
are fighting?
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From today's NYT:
Rodolfo Perdomo Bueno, who operates a mill company called Grupo Perno, said
that despite their
Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Why not read it and find out for yourself
instead of demolishing the straw men of
your imagination.
Yes, yes Max, my damn imagination: I hallucinate (as you put it) that Lind
is a nativist and a right winger (by the way, there are interesting things
to
I tried to unsubscribe; perhaps Michael P will help me.
Erased all the messages. Just checked through the archive.
As to whether Lind's view of the job displacing and welfare using effects of
the immigration of poor, uneducated Mexicans can be accurately characterized
as demagogic racist
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I know absolutely NOTHING about the content of this case. I know and like
Kliman, while I've been on the ed. board of the RRPE and admire their
magazine. In this kind of situation, all else constant, my basic,
gut-level, instinct is to assume that
Lind is not a nativist. He is a liberal
nationalist. He may be a Listian, but
to me that is not necessarily a Bad Thing.
The idea that he is a right-wing plant is
hallucinatory.
mbs
While what Pugliese downloaded includes reasonable criticisms of a
neo bracero program, it soon became an
How can we ever imagine succeeding in effecting large-scale social
transformation if tiny factions of 'radical' and 'marxist' economists
cannot work out their petty differences without bankrupting one of the
only organizations and journals that provide an outlet for papers and
presentations for
Even so, please, I am trying to avoid the aggressive sort of note that you
posted here. Please cool it.
I see aggression in what Spivak once called in a moment of clarity
sanctioned ignorance, i.e., what can be safely ignored. Note Max's
refusal to reply to Jain Carowan's well reasoned
I refer here not only to retaliations and beggar-thy-neighbor
policies (to which Mark was perhaps averring) but the possibility
that by limiting the supply of dollars abroad through tariffs and the
other import restrictions meant to protect declining industries--and
this seems to be
Jim Devine wrote:
I wrote:
The MNCs are mostly for free trade, though they will take
advantage of existing trade restrictions, if they can.
Rakesh:
Jim, how do you know this?
The usual way I know things, from reading, from direct experience,
and from logically or intuitively figuring it out.
Actually, I don't overlook this. In fact I wrote my dissertation on
this and looked into the role of historical inertia quite closely
and it doesn't hold up.
Sounds like a great diss. Did you ever publish an article summarizing it?
If not, what school did you do it at?
The official
Michael Lind (The Next American Nation) makes the point
that patents, IP, and professional licensure (i.e.,
tenure!) are the upper-class (white overclass) variant
of protectionism.
Consistent free-traders should be willing to do away
with those barriers to trade as well. How do laissez
faire
Rakesh Narpat Bhandari wrote,
And the size of the CAD (and trade deficit) is not correlated with
the value of the dollar; if it were there would be some reason to
expect Tom W's scenario of an imminent mass dumping of dollars. Why
does there seem to be no correlation? Ellen's analysis seems
JUL 18, 2001
Other People's Money
By PAUL KRUGMAN
I t wasn't true when Richard Nixon said it, but it is true today: We
are all Keynesians now at least when we look at our own economy. We
give anti-Keynesian advice only to other countries.
When it comes to the U.S. economy,
Lind is not a nativist. He is a liberal
nationalist. He may be a Listian, but
to me that is not necessarily a Bad Thing.
The idea that he is a right-wing plant is
hallucinatory.
mbs
Check what he says about the need to control immigration in one of
his books. Maybe I am hallucinating his
1. Alex's concerns about dynamic increasing returns speak mostly to
North-North trade--as Richard Nelson and Sylvia Ostry have noted--not
to the North-South trade which has motivated anti-globalization,
protectionist sentiment. So the theoretical concerns which he raises
seem out of place
In any event, the world political economy has changed, undermining
the political basis for protectionism
Jim, I check the archives often, and have learned a great deal from
your posts. Not sure I agree here. Wouldn't the US state like to
run a trade deficit to its own mnc's and thus
Jim D wrote
At 04:31 PM 07/17/2001 -0700, you wrote:
In any event, the world political economy has changed,
undermining the political basis for protectionism
... Not sure I agree here. Wouldn't the US state like to run a
trade deficit to its own mnc's and thus accept imports from where
I don't get along with Rakesh, who has just arrived,
but how do we know it's really Rakesh and not some
imposter whose real name is Hyman Blumenstock or
Tachion Babushka?
Max, why do you find so called ethnic names funny? Are you one of
those self-hating ones?
Look, I am sure you are a good
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