Has Jeffrey Sachs changed his tune...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 15 08:21:38 PDT 1998


Mathew Forstater wrote:


>For awhile, his shock therapy stuff served that purpose, but then it became
>received wisdom and so it became a yawn for him. plus maybe the "change"
>will make people forget some of the disastrous effects of the policies he
>promoted.

Don't forget the role played in the criminal Russian privatization program by the Harvard Institute for International Development, which Sachs heads. The whole smelly tale is told by Anne Williamson in an unpublished book chapter, which Mark Jones has up on his web site, at <http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~jones_m/williamson.htm>.

Doug



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