actually, true. Bates changed his position in his later works, but I
don't know if dramatically though, to say that rational choice was
already implicit in his early works, so the outcome is not suprising. I
have to dig into pol.eco notes for this..
in any case, i agree on the basics..
Mine
>Brad, you are not missing anything! I was making a critical comment on
>Bates' approach to development. I am assuming we are talking about the same
>Bates here (Robert). Regarding his _Markets and States_, I don't completely
>disagree with the fact that state-led development had biases towards sm
Jim wrote:
>
> No, since the rational calculating machines only take into account the
> costs and benefits to themselves. It's very common in economics to point to
> the difference between individual rationality and efficiency from a more
> social perspective. It's true that economists generally
I wrote:
> > Economists list three ways of dealing with "the economic problem"
> > (scarcity), which would include problems such as the way in which the
> > commercialization of agriculture drives the landless peasants to seek ways
> > to survive that involve deforestation and farming on steep hil
Jim wrote:
> Economists list three ways of dealing with "the economic problem"
> (scarcity), which would include problems such as the way in which the
> commercialization of agriculture drives the landless peasants to seek ways
> to survive that involve deforestation and farming on steep hills,
>
* Subject: Mozambique cashew challenge to IMF
From: Joe Hanlon ([EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Date: Sun 10 Oct 1999 - 23:24:45 BST
MOZAMBIQUE CHALLENGES
WORLD BANK, IMF
WITH DECISION TO PROTECT
CASHEW NUT INDUSTRY
WILL BANK AND FUND
BLOCK MOZAMBIQUE'S
ADDITIONAL DEBT RELIEF?
By Joseph Hanlon, Maput
>BTW, is there anyone on this list who has more knowledge on
>Mozambique's cashews?
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I had written: >Part of the ecological and human crisis is people's
free-market responses to poverty. <
Mine Doyran writes:
>Are we left with no solutions _but_ free market responses to poverty and
>ecological crisis? If not, which is what I get from your post, what can be
>the alternative so
Brad, you are not missing anything! I was making a critical comment on
Bates' approach to development. I am assuming we are talking about the same
Bates here (Robert). Regarding his _Markets and States_, I don't completely
disagree with the fact that state-led development had biases towards small
>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>A strong bias against relatively small-scale rural producers has been
>>one of the worst things about African state-led development over the
>>past generation (see Robert Bates's _Markets and States in Tropical
>>Africa_, or Dumont's _False Start in Africa_). And it does lo
Brad DeLong wrote:
>A strong bias against relatively small-scale rural producers has been
>one of the worst things about African state-led development over the
>past generation (see Robert Bates's _Markets and States in Tropical
>Africa_, or Dumont's _False Start in Africa_). And it does look lik
Are we left with no solutions _but_ free market responses to poverty
and ecological crisis? If not, which is what I get from your post, what
can be the alternative solutions accessible?
Mine Doyran
SUNY/Albany
>Part of the ecological and human crisis is people's free-market responses
>to pov
Louis writes:
>The real story in Mozambique today is not about cashew nuts, it is about
>flooding. As in the case of Venezuela, Honduras and other victims of
>"natural" disasters, the cause of widespread suffering and death is very
>likely rooted in violent weather patterns spawned by global wa
Louis Proyect wrote:
>the cause of widespread suffering and death is very
>likely rooted in violent weather patterns spawned by global warming
...not to mention clear-cutting of forests and other reckless
land-management practices.
Doug
>I think Paul's gotcha.
>
>A strong bias against relatively small-scale rural producers has been
>one of the worst things about African state-led development over the
>past generation (see Robert Bates's _Markets and States in Tropical
>Africa_, or Dumont's _False Start in Africa_). And it does
>I think Paul's gotcha.
He doesn't "have me," since (as I said) I wasn't endorsing or condemning
the Mozambican export tax on cashews (since unlike PK I didn't claim to
know the details of the case).
And I notice that you provide us with no specific information about either
Mozambique or cas
>In the NY TIMES, April 19, Paul Krugman writes: >When Seattle Man
>[sic] went to Washington, his activities were coordinated in large
>part by a Web site, www.a16.org. Browsing the site, I was struck by
>the critique of the World Bank, written by Robert Naiman -- the
>activist who threw a pie
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