>This is related to my point about Yugoslavian
>enterprises and subsidies, IMF, etc. Note that
>"non-market criteria" in this context is a signifier
>for heavily skewed investment policies following region
>and ethnicity. The strong desire of most of the
>member states to get out of the Yugoslav federation was
>related to their belief 1) that economic development
>was working against them (even in the prosperous
>Croatia and Slovenia and 2) that this iniquitous system
>was backed up by excessive force in a police and army
>(major sources of plumb state jobs) that were dominated
>by the Serbs.
They got what they wanted, didn't they?
Doug