Brad De Long wrote:
So if in a decade Mexico, Brazil, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech
Republic are in the position that SK and Taiwan are now, you will
conclude... what?
That history has reversed itself? That 5 countries out of over 200 in
the World Bank's World Development Indicators don't
As I dsaid, in the Schweickart model, investment is planned, so this wouldn't be a
problem with socialist markets.
In a message dated Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:35:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Jim Devine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 12:04 AM 07/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
What system provides
At 03:43 PM 7/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
As I dsaid, in the Schweickart model, investment is planned, so this
wouldn't be a problem with socialist markets.
if investment is planned, then the Hayek critique applies and the
Schweickart model falls apart, right? or maybe the Hayek critique isn't as
I have long troubled over investment planning. It is a weak point in Schweickart's
theory from an efficiency point of view. I think we may have to suffer those
inefficiencies for equity reasons. Without denocratic control of new investment, it is
hard to see how you have socialism at all. But
None of this is in Rostow's theory. His theory is worse than the
crudest of the crude Marxian stage theories.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
I guess I should say something good about crude Marxian stage
theories (which actually ain't that bad), and about GA
Brad DeLong wrote:
I guess I should say something good about crude Marxian stage theories
(which actually ain't that bad), and about GA Cohen and technological
determinism to boot...
One key problems with the technological determinism that Marx flirted with
in his early days (when he was more
