You write:
>> Go easy on Larry. Remember the papers that he and I wrote late in the 1980s
>> supporting a Tobin Tax...
I risk going over old terrain here because I've had to resort to trashing unread posts of late. Are we talking Larry Summers?
That Larry is, it seems to me, a slightly more forthright and honest pig than the pigs Patrick lists. He knows well enough that of which he's part. As he did in the case of his oh-so-forthright-and-honest argument for poisoning people in the third world. How did that bit of forthright honesty go again? 'They're all gonna die soon anyway, so it won't hurt', wasn't it?
There's a recipe for progress, eh?
The only good thing about Larry's comment was that I read about it in the first article I was ever to read by one Henwood, D. (a pathetically transparent gesture to redeem my pomo-baiting self in our moderator's eyes).
Fuck Larry.
Cheers, Rob.