Positive features of U.S. policy

[Seth Ackerman]

Doug wrote:


> The whole statement is an exercise in overstatement - it almost reads 
> like an early contribution to the Gore campaign. 
> 
> 
	The original draft of the statement was written by Dean Baker and
was a lot less boosterish for U.S. policy. Later, Jamie Galbraith
substantially revised it. (I came up with the original suggestion for an
economists' statement on Schroeder's reforms.) But I think the net effect of
the statement is very positive and certainly 180 degrees away from Goreish
centrism. The idea is to convince the German left that there are choices
other than Blairism. 

	Seth