Has Jeffrey Sachs changed his tune...

[Brad De Long]

>Re Max's:  "Nor is there any giant inconsistency in supporting
>debt relief for Third World countries and advocating,
>however wrongly, industrial-strength free market
>medicine for the ex-socialist countries.  The
>settings and problems are completely different."
>
>Quite simply, Sachs' willingness to brutalize the ex-Soviets with "shock
>therapy" -- the name alone is obscene -- reflects depravity so extreme
>that his new guise as Lady Bountiful  is immediately suspect.
>
>Carl Remick

As Max said: It's not a new guise. It's a line that Sachs has been
advocating since the Latin American (and African) debt crises began in the
1980s...

Brad DeLong