> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S. Charusheela) > Subject: [PEN-L:11233] critique and politics (was re: Tax bill may...) > Max Sawicky notes his dismay at how academic quibbling becomes a shield for > political inaction. I am sympathetic, and agree that this is often the > case. > > One correction, however, about microcredit. I wish to note that while > some, perhaps even much of the critique does follow the type of 'shield for > politics' Max is quite rightly critiquing, that is not the whole story. > There are very concrete reasons that many folks, including me, are critical > of the euphoria around micro-credit. This is not because one is against I hold no brief for or against micro-credit (I'm mildly sympathetic, but I claim no knowledge of the subject). I'm just not going to be as interested in a critique when the general patter of criticism is to reject most anything. > . . . > to work, and that is a political intervention, no? For the record, I will > reassure Max that many of us 'nasty critics' work with and . . . Please don't attribute words to me that I never used! I DID NOT use the term "nasty critics" in my post. I wasn't even talking about critics of micro-credit per se. My post was not about micro-credit at all. Cheers, MBS =================================================== Max B. Sawicky Economic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax) Washington, DC 20036 http://epn.org/sawicky Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone associated with the Economic Policy Institute other than this writer. ===================================================
