Sabri Oncu wrote:
I don't know what troll means but I happen to have some ideas
about right wingers. I hold that a necessary, but not sufficient,
condition for being a leftist is the recognition that the US is
an imperialist state screwing most of the rest of the world.
Don't forget the U.S.'s
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Also, many of the maq's are shutting down as contractors flee to China and
other low cost labor.
Michael Perelman
just released international labour organization report indicates 200,000 such jobs
have shifted to china... michael hoover
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32701] Re: Maquiladoras not beneficial
to me, it doesn't matter that much whether deLong is a right-winger or not. I can filter out his right-wing opinions, just as I do with the New York TIMES or U.S. National Public Radio. Just as I filter out a lot of the crap that some
A little while ago I discovered that Brad Delong has an article
defending neoliberalism in Mexico on his website that originally
appeared in Foreign Affairs:
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Econ_Articles/themexicanpesocrisis.html
It is very useful, even if totally wrong--especially when read
Lou is correct on several points. Brad typically supports neo-liberal
policies abroad and, at least to my mind, he is more often than not wrong.
Also, the 3 people he mentioned did leave in disgust about Brad's
behavior. I thought that it would have been healthier to have dialogued
with Brad,
Michael Perelman wrote:
Lou is correct on several points. Brad typically supports neo-liberal
policies abroad and, at least to my mind, he is more often than not wrong.
Also, the 3 people he mentioned did leave in disgust about Brad's
behavior. I thought that it would have been healthier to
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From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't forget the U.S.'s junior partners, like Canada, the EU, and
Japan, who sometimes act as if they're above the imperial screwing
even as they benefit from it.
Doug
Not long after 9-11 there was a
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
this is the standard way that the US imperialists see it: the US
provides
international public goods from which the other countries -- including
the
totally dominated ones -- benefit. The countries that don't go along
(e.g.,
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32721] Re: Maquiladoras not beneficial
I described:
the standard way that the US imperialists see it: the US provides international public goods from which the other countries -- including the totally dominated ones -- benefit. The countries that don't go along (e.g
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian, Ian, Ian! you're getting too close to reality! the efforts by
individual parts of the military-industrial complex (or the whole
shebang)
to gain advantage for themselves is part of the reality of imperialism.
It's
not
Dialogue requires a certain degree of courtesy that was often absent from
his posts.
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:22:32PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Lou is correct on several points. Brad typically supports neo-liberal
policies abroad and, at least to my mind, he is
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32724] Re: RE: Re: Maquiladoras not beneficial
I said:
It's
not the same as the self-perception and self-justification of
imperialists
that I described.
Ian writes:
Right, except that I think they're no longer worried about the fables of
international public goods
Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
True enough, but it's an odd model of dialogue that will admit only
people in fundamental agreement with each other. I guess it's the
left version of Richard Feinberg's wonderful comment that democracy
only works when there's fundamental
Carrol Cox:
Brad is an enemy, but one can talk to him just as Chou tried to talk to
Dulles one morning during the Geneva Conference. (They both arrived
early one morning; Chou offered to shake hands, Dulles snubbed him.) In
the present case Lou is playing a marxist version of Dulles's style,
At 01:04 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, Louis quoted:
Maquiladora workers receive wages considerably below those paid to
non-maquiladora manufacturing workers.
What is it about the stats I've seen quoted by bourgeois economists that
makes it possible for them to represent the opposite as true?
Bill
Bill Burgess wrote:
At 01:04 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, Louis quoted:
Maquiladora workers receive wages considerably below those paid to
non-maquiladora manufacturing workers.
What is it about the stats I've seen quoted by bourgeois economists that
makes it possible for them to represent the
What Louis quoted is true. What you may have seen is that the maq. wages
are higher than the prevailing wage, since manufacturing jobs are scarce
relative to the total job market.
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:22:17AM -0800, Bill Burgess wrote:
At 01:04 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, Louis quoted:
Also, many of the maq's are shutting down as contractors flee to China and
other low cost labor.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael wrote:
I don't think that Brad DeLong is a right winger
or a troll. Among economists, he would rank as a
left liberal.
I don't know what troll means but I happen to have some ideas
about right wingers. I hold that a necessary, but not sufficient,
condition for being a leftist is the
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