GDP is unscientific and unfair for poor people.

[Stephen E Philion]

Yes, who should be making these changes Charles? Chang's comments come
out of left field. Is he saying that left economists should do this more?
Bourgeois economists? If so, why *should* bourgeois economists (now the
mainstream in the US as well as China)  change their methodology ? They
wouldn't be bourgeois if they did, which he doesn't seem to get. 

Reminds me of the constant complaint in China that if only the US played
fair, China could develop in the market place...the problem isn't
capitlalists or capitalism or global expansion of capitalist
markets for that matter...just 'unfairness'....

Steve                                              

  

 
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Charles Brown wrote:


> 
> >>> Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> 08/31/99 12:57PM >>
> I think this is indicative of a certain confusion on the left - which was
> excellently summarised by jim heartfield some time ago: the main thrust of
> marxist critique of capitalism is not the level of production but the
> distribution of surplus. 
> 
> 
> (((((((((
> 
> Charles: This is the main thrust of Ju-Chang He's critcism too. Ju-Chang is saying stop paying attention to the level of production only  (GDProduct(ion)) and start paying attention to distribution of the surplus (poor people) too in evaluating your economic performance.
> 
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> Charles Brown
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